Urban Trademarks

Correspondent from New York


How not to trademark something™
When you trademark something, you need to make sure your name is unique. So whoever did the trademark searches either did bad jobs or came up with snigger-worthy names.


For example, there's CodeRage:

The feeling a programmer has towards another programmer (or team) when working with their shoddy code.

This poorly designed application is giving me code rage: I'm supposed to add these three features by next week, but I still can't make heads or tails of their clusterfuck of code. If I meet the guys who made this, I'm going to kill them.

CodeRage was created after Borland refused to pay speaker fees at market prices. That caused many excellent speakers to disappear from BorCon. Chad Hower even said that he makes more money speaking at Microsoft Conferences and would give BorCon conferences a miss.

Then there's:

- FireMonkey (Self-explanatory),

- Rad Studio (a film often made on a low, almost bare bones budget),

- IntraWeb ( Parody of internet. Used on forums alot. Recently changed to interweb),

-Web Snap (It's what Google Chrome Webbrowser displays when a web-page load crashes unexpectedly.),


And others too:
- hcOPF


And...The Delphi Logo itself. Goodness. Did they check similarity and likeness of other trademarks?




Joe was doing some power-programming and gave Jane the best FireMonkey ever.

Delphi Swag

And if someone excels to the point where they should be an Olympic athlete:

Notice the similar Delphi Logo in background