Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? 389
geogeek6_7 writes: "Intel Inc., everyone's favorite chipmaker, has apparently decided that they own the rights to the word 'Inside.' In proceedings bordering on the line of frivolity, the Yoga Inside Foundation has been tagged with trademark infringment in papers submitted to the PTO by Intel. The article states that Intel will most likely use the Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 in court." Don't worry, Intel doesn't want every instance of the word "Inside" -- only the ones that come right after another word. (Look at the meaning of "Inside" that the YIF is referring to, and the story gets even more absurd.)
New warning sign at Intel's headquarters... (Score:5, Funny)
Intel had better watch out... (Score:3, Funny)
The Intel Lawyer Trademark (Score:5, Funny)
I guess their lawyers figure people will confused between yoga and a company with their head up their ass.
Dear God, is there no way... (Score:2, Funny)
Seen outside Intel HQ... (Score:4, Funny)
~Philly
Inside Windows (Score:2, Funny)
Intel is just protecting consumer rights (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry to take the corporate side, but... (Score:1, Funny)
Rush Out 'n' Register (Score:5, Funny)
"Yes, your honor, we are suing Just To Make Our Lawyers Fuzzy Inside"
Finally, some honesty in the legal system.
NIN (Score:4, Funny)
They will be shortly re-issuing the CD with these sanitized lyrics that are more compatible with current American sensitivities:
I want to FUCK you like an animal
I want to feel you from the in***e
When asked for comment, band leader Trent Reznor said: "Yeah, I'm upset about this. But I feel better knowing that I've personally scored more chicks than all of the dorks working at Intel combined."
quote (Score:3, Funny)
- Bruce Murphy
Re:New letter for Intel HQ (Score:2, Funny)
Please stop using our trademark Inside - or we'll put you inside.
Yours,
Intel
Re:Keeping up Appearances. (Score:3, Funny)
Err.. hold on... this isn't a marlboro.
Karma time (Score:3, Funny)
Does anyone know how I can contact them?
I want some more Karma!!!
I'm am going to put a gigantic sign on the (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm inside"
better yet, someone should sell bumper stickers that say, "people inside"
Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 (Score:2, Funny)
Suggested new trademark for Intel: Lawyers Inside
My favorite quote (Score:1, Funny)
"He said the 'instant recognition and appeal' of the 'blank inside' format stems from 'Intel's enormous investment of over a decade of time and money.'"
Oh boohoo! As some bright person recently said in an Ask Slashdot discussion, call the waaaambulance!
This is like someone saying, "we invested an enormous amount of time and money into building this sandcastle. And now this tide has appeared on the beach - completely unexpectedly - and it's threatening our monumental work of brilliance. We will be suing reality for this!"
I think I can hear them stomping their feet, too.
I wonder whether I will be buying any more products from Intel. How can I expect to find good products coming from a company that decides to make an, "enormous investment of over a decade of time and money," to produce a trademark based around
Wow.
Perhaps they should have spent that time and money on producing better products, and then let that quality build their reputation for them
I need to upgrade my PII-400 system sometime this summer. This article has made up my mind: I'll be buying AMD
If the Intel people quoted in the article really do recognize that they're pursuing a harsh response, and that they truly believe the fault is with a law that is forcing them to react this way, then perhaps they should be doing something about having the law changed, instead of making themselves look like a bunch of bullies.
Call the waaaambulance! It's not our fault, it's not our fault! We make more money in a year than many countries do, but we can't do a thing in this case - our hands are tied! Really!
Re:Keeping up Appearances. (Score:5, Funny)
Intel should take a lesson from Southwest Airlines. A few years back, some small North Carolina company called them up claiming to have prior rights to "Just Plane Smart". And instead of threatening legal action, they suggested an arm-wrestling match - i.e. winner takes the trademark.
Southwest actually sent a wrestler (who lost), and won a ton of PR points for it.
Can we trademark regular expressions? (Score:3, Funny)
So now I have to wonder. According to Intel, we could have.
Is it to late to trademark "Virtual\ .+" ?
80,000 variations (Score:3, Funny)
There are 80 basic Yoga postures, and 80,000 variations.
And not one of them is called the 'intel'.
In fact, the only posture you'll find associated with an 'intel', is the "shoulderhouchedoverkeyboardstrainedneckahansa" -- and that is definetly not a classic Yoga posture.
There's also the "repetitivestressisfuckingmywristsahansa", and the "mybodywilldieprematurelyfromlackofexcerciseahansa " posture.
But none of these will be found on a Yoga video.
And don't get me started on diet.
Really, "Yoga" is associated with health, while "intel" is associated with unhealth.
Yoga means the joining of mind and body. Intel means the joining of your arse to the chair.
There is no possibility of confusing these two things, 'yoga' and 'intel'.
I suggest the lawyers sow a label onto the back of their trowsers, "shit inside", and then they can sue their own asses off.
Re:New letter for Intel HQ (Score:3, Funny)
How about I jam my foot inside your ass.
Yours,
dimator
21.8 Million Tradmark Violations... (Score:1, Funny)
Devil Inside (Score:3, Funny)
With The Look In Her Eye
Raised On Leather
With Flesh On Her Mind
Words As Weapons Sharper Than Knives
Makes You Wonder How The Other Half Die
Other Half Die
Here Come The Man
With The Look In His Eye
Fed On Nothing
But Full Of Pride
Look At Them Go
Look At Them Kick
Makes You Wonder How The Other Half Live
Intel inside
Intel inside
Every Single One Of Us With Intel inside
Intel inside
Intel inside
Every Single One Of Us With Intel inside
Here Come The World
With The Look In Its Eye Future Uncertain
But Certainly Slight
Look At The Faces
Listen To The Bells
It's Hard To Believe We Need A Place Called Hell
Might as well go after pr0n... (Score:2, Funny)
Unfair tactics (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Intel is just protecting consumer rights (Score:1, Funny)
Intel Inside? Not likely.
INTEL inside (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How can this be TM Dilution? (Score:2, Funny)
Its not a related product, isnt that one of the TM dilution areas? Its not a computer product. So how can it dilute the computer TM?
Transcendental Meditation? TM (tm)? TM (tm) (tm)?? If Intel would use a nice strong TM, perhaps TM wouldn't worry them so much.
Re:New warning sign at Intel's headquarters... (Score:3, Funny)
What's REALLY inside? (Score:3, Funny)
"Check what out?" you might ask. Well, in short, I wanted to check out what's 'inside'. So I did.
Now, to do this with a Pentium 4 would be silly. It's an expensive chip and I don't like the idea of supporting Intel's legal BS with my purchases. I found a couple of 486's laying around (33MHz if you're curious) and decided I should immediately set out to find out what's 'inside'.
Noticing the top is one piece told me to focus my efforts on relieving the chips of their bottom plate which I theorized (having neither the time nor the inclination to actually find out) were simply either glued or soldered on. Working under this theory, I tried using a small straighthead scewdriver to scrape away whatever was holding it in place on the outside and try to pry under the plate.
After realizing this was going nowhere fast, I looked around and decided the best way in was to reverse the process by which it was assembled. Keep in mind I had no intention of trying to actually do anything with what I found, nor do I have the expertise to figure out how any of it worked. I just wanted to see what the hell is 'inside'. I therefore decided to use a small butaine torch. This should, I theorized, heat up the glue or whatever enough to allow me to get into the plate.
I'm going to say this once and I hope everyone listens... DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF WITHOUT GLOVES, LONG SLEEVES, LONG PANTS, AND GOGGLES! Also make sure someone is very nearby (within talking distance) in case something goes wrong. I STRONGLY recommend you NOT try this AT ALL.
Ok, now torch in one hand, vice grips in the other, I proceeded to heat the plate up as much as possible. Pins were glowing, popping and crackling sounds were easily heart, and I started smelling a rather odd burning smell. Eventually the plate came off (dropped off the first one, was pryed off the second one) and I got my first look at what's 'inside'.
Take it from me Intel, this ain't worth suing over. Fire your lawyers and go back to making stuff. It's basically a little rectangular piece of material held into place by a bunch of small gold traces (one for each pin). It looks like the hologram cards from the old Marvel X-men cards. Well, I figured I should investigate further, so I lit up my investigation tool (torch) and went back to work. After maybe 10 minutes of torching various places, the chip pretty much exploded. I have to hand it to Intel, their die held up pretty well until the chip blew apart. Basically, there was a loud 'pop' and about half the cpu flew off to my right about 4 or 5 feet. Pieces of the die went all over and it was altogether really cool.
So anyway, that's the basic story, second CPU didn't explode, and by then I had taken out goggles and gloves to protect myself in case it did. So without further adu, I send you off here [geocities.com] so you can see the pictures of what's 'inside'. Trademarks have been edited out for my continued enjoyment of not getting tossed in an 8x10 foot cell with "Bubba".
Enjoy.