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Because that other timeline you originally lived in was so bad you came to this one, and erased your memory to forget its horrors.FAKKU to Contest Chinese Company’s Trademark of Ahegao
(Editor's Note: Reader discretion is advised throughout) A Chinese company has trademarked the phrase "Ahegao," and is reportedly attempting to forbid hentai publisher Fakku from selling merchandise…
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Why do I live in this timeline?
The example I had in mind was Games Workshop trying (& obviously failing) to trademark 'Space Marine'.
Indeed, brother, without the communist party the pederasts of Japan will spread their bourgeois decadence to every corner of the Earth, including the holy-lands.
Yes, capitalist degeneracy must be defeated, brother, if we are to achieve the true scientific goal of Maoist thought.
That it's a word from another language doesn't matter. The biggest issue is that no court in the West will permit the copyrighting of words already accepted in everyday use, foreign or not. Specific, non-obvious combinations of words requiring a particular act of creativity may be copyrighted. And I'd be deeply surprised if China's court would permit this copyright, either. As a quick note, copyrights and patents generally pass if unchallenged. This means some flagrantly unreasonable ones will pass, but they'll collapse the minute someone prods them.
My father worked at the scientific end of intellectual property (i.e. amassing scientific evidence on whether patents really were novel, which would then be passed to the patent attorneys to argue in court). He said Japan used to have a nasty habit of rejecting patents from Western companies, and then okaying exactly the same thing a few months later from a Japanese company. This I suspect has greatly reduced over the years as major Western nations have increasingly harmonised a lot of their IP.
