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Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious

From David Hume <David.Hume@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious
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Date 2014-06-04 09:57 +0100
Message-ID <831tv5rqzz.fsf@example.com> (permalink)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

>   "In January 2014, a Brooklyn artist named Paul Ingrisano trademarked
>   the 3,000-year old mathematical symbol "\u03c0" followed by a period,
>   and is actively protecting his mark, Wired's Kevin Poulsen reports."
>


But the PI symbol is the greek letter pi. How can you trademark a
letter?

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A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-04 01:11 +0000
  Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-06-04 09:57 +0100
    Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-06-04 11:00 +0100
    Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-04 10:02 +0000
  Re: A Brooklyn Artist Trademarked The 'Pi' Symbol, And People Are Furious Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-06-04 14:05 +0100

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