hiddengoat @ hiddengoat @kbin.social

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Thank you, bank spokesperson.

Now go piss up a rope.

Okay, that's one video. Now do the 1500 or so others with minimal information.

His videos have devolved to the level of a low effort shitpost.

The plank they have now is a laminate. When you say it will be more expensive, it's literally just a chunk of plywood. Changing wood types partway through would be enough to indicate wear.

This is a solved problem, and is absolutely not expensive.

No, it's not a fucking farce you just have minimal knowledge of how this shit works. Which why the fuck would you be lame enough to know it?

So here's how it works, because I AM that lame...

A trademark can apply to any number of limited areas. It can be limited to a geographical region, it can be limited to industry, it can be limited to a specific service, it can be limited to a specific product.

If I start a restaurant called "McBurgerPlace" in NYC and it turns out there's already a McBurgerPlace in San Francisco... well it doesn't matter because the San Francisco McBurgerPlace only has one location. They may have a trademark on the name, but infringement of a mark hinges on the concept of confusion in the marketplace. Will someone reasonably confuse MBPNYC with MBPSF? The answer is no. They're on opposite sides of the country, in different markets, serving different menus. There's no infringement because the market for each is limited to their nearby geographic region. Let's say I'm better at burgers. I start to expand. Soon, I operate 363,824 MBP restaurants worldwide. I am the king of food. Except that I'm not. I can't break into the Bay Area. Why can't I? Because that's MBPSF's territory. They were there first. They had the trademark prior to my registration. As such, I cannot enter that market with that name. Doing so would threaten their mark and lead to a lawsuit that I would almost certainly lose. It would be much easier to just rename my restaurants in that area BcPlurgerMace and get on with life.

This exact thing happened to Burger King. https://www.businessmatters925.com/post/burger-king-vs-burger-king-trademark-infringement-case-study

Look at a local business directory and see how many places are named "Five Star." Laundry, plumbing, electric, movers, etc. You can have that many "Five Star" businesses because they operate in different market segments. Nobody is going to call Five Star Plumbing thinking they're actually calling Five Star Movers. There's no competition. There is no dilution of the mark. There is no infringement.

Trademark and IP law is fucking stupid unless you're a goddamn moron and waste considerable amounts of your life reading way too much about it. For money. Because it's your job.

Life Pro Tip: Don't be a paralegal.

Yeah, sure, it was that one thing that one time in that one game that people laughed at. That was it. It totally wasn't the success of microtransations on mobile devices, with people paying real money for five second clips of MIDI versions of popular song or anything like that.

Come the fuck on.

Detroit will never rise above "COMPLETE HOLE" status until they unfuck public transportation. I'd like to visit but I don't drive so what's the point? See a five block area around downtown?

Of course they didn't, because hockey players can't stop being bigoted fucks while also raping their teammates.

Or is that just the Blackhawks organization?

I trust Forbes to be correct about this about as much as I trust Forbes to be correct about anything.

They're a trash rag that exists solely to fellate capitalist shitbags.

Fuck 'em.

You mean everyone that lives in a state where this regional restaurant operates.

https://www.scrapehero.com/store/wp-content/uploads/maps/TacoJohnsUSA.png

The nearest one is 400 miles away from me.

Which I just covered. The Panthers have better attendance than the team in Canada's capital yet nobody would ever talk shit about there being too many Canadian teams.

I get what you're trying to say but it's not really relevant to expansion.

Because Lubbock is a meth-infested shithole in the middle of nowhere. The only thing to do there is drugs, alcohol, rape, and domestic violence.

The ADA doesn't interfere with the Commerce Clause.

The government will not dad dick you any faster than if you fuck with the Commerce Clause.

Oh don't worry, with the increasing droughts caused by global warming it's inevitable that this shit-tier patch of land will die in fire.

This state has never been great.

Such incompatible opinions are indicative that one or both camps are full of shit.

You've very obviously never play LITERALLY ANY FUCKING GAME that has existed in the past ten years then.

The "issue" they're trying to bring up is concentration of teams in one geographic region. This argument falls apart when you realize the Islanders, Rangers, and Devils basically play in the same NFL stadium and nobody seems to care. It's just CA and FL people complain about.

The game needs to expand into new markets but contracting in large markets is not the way to do it.