03-12-2010, 21:46
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,935
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Re: Gracious Professionalism(TM)???
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Originally Posted by jeremiah.pegues
A quick thought:
Does anyone else think it is ironic that the term gracious professionalism and the method coopertition are both trademarked?
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Does FIRST want those phrases and what they imply to be widely adopted parts of world culture? Yes.
Does FIRST want some malicious or mischievious entity to start advertising Coopertition pronography (I'm not sure what this would be, but I doubt FIRST would like it) or Graciously Professional burglery tools (they let you open locks without damaging them) No.
Trademarking the phrases does seem a bit overly nervous, especially when the protection offered by a trademark is only as good as the consistency of the owner's actions to protect it.
I doubt FIRST does enough enforcing to let them create a strong case in the few circumstances when enforcement might be important to them.
Blake
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Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
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