Year: 2020 (page 64 of 93)
In 2004, Donald Trump attempted trademarking the phrase “You’re fired.” While he did not invent the phrase, he had popularized it by using it to evict contestants on his TV show, The Apprentice. The show was popular, with 20 million viewers tuning in on NBC every week. Trump planned to use the
– #Smells
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– #Product shapes
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#Google
Trademark value: $44.3 billion
Company market capitalization (number of shares times share price): $164 billion
Still the most popular search engine, Google, with its mobile operating system Android, has now surpassed Blackberry and Apple’s systems in terms of market share.
#Microsoft<br
In 2006, America’s retail giant Walmart attempted to trademark the yellow ‘happy face’ logo which has long been used to create the company’s brand identity in its stores. The attempt to register this mark seemed impossible from the outset, given that the smiley face image has been around since