Russian Tries to Trademark ;-)

[jshell]

Russian guy is granted " ;-) " as a trademark and wants to charge companies and organisations 'tens of thousands of $$$' to use this common Emoticon.....and it's derivitives... :-) etc....




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7778767.stm

[H2DaE]

The president of Russian social networking site odnoklassniki.ru, Nikita Sherman said: "You're not likely to find any retards in Russia who'll pay Superfone for the use of emoticons".