Word: trademarking
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...AIDS, but he argued it should license its intellectual property more widely. He urged the audience to “appeal to [university administrators’] good conscience; I believe they have it.” As he took the podium, Achmat removed his jacket to reveal his trademark, a black t-shirt with the words “HIV POSITIVE.” His speech to the crowd of more than 150 was lively and humorous, referring frankly to his own HIV-positive condition and identity as a gay man. Achmat is the chair and founder of the Treatment...
Burkle’s direction brings his trademark quirky yet sophisticated creativity to the show. His decision to have Chan play Dr. Knock is inventive, providing another way for this role, as a symbol of modernism and industrialization, to break with tradition. The intermission—what can only be termed a period of “decontamination”—is a masterstroke that wins the audience’s attention and amusement...
...first met him six years ago, Batali said he didn't expect to open a restaurant in Las Vegas, since it would be too far from New York for him to drop in unannounced. Of course, back then you could also see Batali wearing something other than his now trademark orange clogs. Doesn't he ever get sick of them? "Hey," he answers, "it doesn't matter, as long as they remember...
...lots of headlines lately. That would include the near shutdown of the popular BlackBerry device, owned by Research in Motion (RIM), of Waterloo, Ont., which had "CrackBerry" fans panicking. RIM coughed up $612.5 million to settle litigation brought by NTP Inc., despite the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected all eight NTP patents that were the focus of the lawsuit. NTP is appealing the rejection, but RIM caved rather than face the potential of an injunction...
...certainly “Spamalot.” It’s everything one expects it to be and a little bit more, boasting better songwriting than most contemporary musicals and, of course, the timeless appeal of jokes that are simultaneously completely absurd and carefully crafted—the trademark of any Python fare. Yet “Spamalot” is still a difficult show to sell to college students, who—though they might be able to recite lines from “Grail” word for word—likely lack the princely sums...