Don't forget that he's likely been subsidizing that with prescription opioids ever since the minor arthroscopic knee surgery.
Would you patent a toy? Or wouldn't you just make it and that inherently gives you the TM for it?
Meanwhile, it's been literally years since Revolution 60 came out, and it still hasn't been patched to fix the bug that prevents you from beating the final boss. John has no room to complain about a much more complex game having post-launch bugs.
You can patent methods, not designs. And a name can be a trademark but without federal registration you get none of the advantages of it. You might have common law remedies but you're missing most of the best Lanham Act remedies, and anyone who infringes your trademark can't be assumed to have been on notice that it's registered. If you register, anyone who infringes is expected to have done a trademark search before using a mark in commerce. A trademark is also not a design (generally), but a word or mark or nearly anything perceptible to the senses (which actually can include a design) that identifies a product as coming from a particular source. A character design would generally be copyrighted and is born copyrighted if it is copyrightable.
Color is an interesting one. Fiskars orange for certain products is a sign of quality.
There are actually a lot of these, like Owens-Corning owning the right to make pink fiberglass insulation, or John Deere owning the right to make green tractor equipment. They generally only own the distinctive shades of the color, though, and may not own it in places that don't recognize such things or where someone else has already been doing that before them.
I thought i heard the ps5/XbX versions were stable?
Fiskars... When you need a clean chop, trust nothing else!
Yeah, registering the color is very specific and I remember in the 90's the specific color would be registered in hexadecimal(making it digital) along with where the trademark applies. It was pretty narrow, as it should be, but using certain words with a certain font in a certain color could be trademarked.
It's what's known as "trade dress"
It's one of many things in that category, which includes things like general look and feel. Unlike many kinds of trade dress, though, one can specifically register a color. For instance, you really couldn't register something like the use of the colors of the Mexican flag for a Mexican restaurant, but if you could add up a number of design features, you might get trade dress infringement out of it. For instance, one of the trade dress suits commonly cited in textbooks: Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc., 505 U.S. 763 (1992). My personal opinion is this case is dumb and has been undermined subsequently anyway but it's still usually in IP textbooks.
Has-been crossover or never-was crossover?
Actually you can. In fact the patent office has kind of been cracking down on pure method claims since Bilski.
That would fall into generacy or at best descriptive