Aussies keep their Ugg Boots
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
At last.... a case of a win for the little guy.
After some big American 'Johnny-Come-Lately' decided to hijack the name...by registering it....it all looked like the 'bastards had won again'....but no, what has been a generic term for sheep-skin boots, in Australia for around a half century has been determined in court as Generic....and SO IT SHOULD.
The biggest insult was the demand-letter to the Australian Macquarie Dictionary to alter its definitions to include 'Dekker' as trademark owner, etc.
You can sell the bloody shoes...but you cannot own the idea.
Stick that in your corporate pipe....and smoke it....
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:17 AM
Armed with this knowledge, I can now pull up my uggs and die a happy man.
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:26 AM
Sometimes somebody has to save us from ourselves. Too bad the same ruling doesn't apply to "patents" on genes...
Link please, to picture of the real thing (not the yuppified version)
Reply #7 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:36 AM
| Link please, to picture of the real thing |
After the Aussie's get done 'doing' what they 'do' to sheep, they make boots out of them....
Reply #10 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:42 AM
Reply #14 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:54 AM
| Way to role model small versions of other peep's images |
It's direct-linked to the source, not re-hosted....so control is kept with the original site...
Reply #17 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:01 AM
Its the Kiwi's that do kinky things with the sheep not us Australians yraq
Reply #18 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:47 AM
Reply #19 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:40 PM
| but those boots are ugly to the 10th power! |
That's why they are called ugg boots (uggly). Either that or 'ugg' refers to the noise most Australians make in place of speech...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:14 AM
sometimes, i feel so ashamed.
Glad y'all won.