Thursday, October 13, 2005

Entrepreneur no more

Use of the word entrepreneur has been trademarked by the Los Angeles-based parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine. Entrepreneur Media Inc. (EMI) claims exclusive rights to use the word. Nobody can use it as apart of a domain name, a publication name, for entertainment purposes, or for radio and TV programs.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think that is crazy! I'm very suprised actually that a trademark would be granted... since it is 'descriptive'.

I ran into a trademark battle myself on the word 'dex'. I guess it really comes down to who has the best lawyers.

Wolfe said...

Crazy shit. Why 'dex' though? Wot does 'dex' mean? Should I obsessively Google(TM) it now in various combinations of your name?