tl;dr Crowder is threatening to sue CNN, Jubilee and Talarico for using the phrase “Change My Mind”, which he argues is “our trademarked brand, logo and format”.
I find it hard to believe that he owns or can own that trademark personally.
Sadly, he does seem to have gotten it trademarked. That LLC owns a “Mug Club” which I presume is Crowder’s.
How this was trademarked, I have no idea, but if it’s used satirically (as in thrown back in his face) I don’t see how a lawsuit prevails - generally this is only merited if CNN started using it directly for a personality on their network or a show name, etc.
That’s insane. It’s just a basic concept of debate. An extremely generic phrase. It’s like trademarking “haha”. I suspect it will be tested more thoroughly in court than at the trademark office.
I don’t see how it prevails regardless. It’s generic when used for a debate, no reasonable consumer would assume it was a brand indicator at all, and even if they did no reasonable consumer would assume this debate was signed off on by him.
tl;dr Crowder is threatening to sue CNN, Jubilee and Talarico for using the phrase “Change My Mind”, which he argues is “our trademarked brand, logo and format”.
I find it hard to believe that he owns or can own that trademark personally.
Sadly, he does seem to have gotten it trademarked. That LLC owns a “Mug Club” which I presume is Crowder’s.
How this was trademarked, I have no idea, but if it’s used satirically (as in thrown back in his face) I don’t see how a lawsuit prevails - generally this is only merited if CNN started using it directly for a personality on their network or a show name, etc.
That’s insane. It’s just a basic concept of debate. An extremely generic phrase. It’s like trademarking “haha”. I suspect it will be tested more thoroughly in court than at the trademark office.
I don’t see how it prevails regardless. It’s generic when used for a debate, no reasonable consumer would assume it was a brand indicator at all, and even if they did no reasonable consumer would assume this debate was signed off on by him.
They should push to overturn it.
Seeing how it’s a whole-ass meme format for years now and nobody has been worried about it until now, I doubt that will stand in court.
To quote Starlord “that’s not a unique thing to say”
I better hurry up and trademark the. The. That’s it. Its mine. You know what, im trademarking mine also. Mine is mine now.