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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:11PM
from the negative-ghostrider-the-pattern-is-full dept.

A US court has ordered a firm to utilize negative adwords in their internet advertising. "Orion Bancorp took Orion Residential Finance (ORF) to court in Florida over ORF's use of the word 'Orion' in relation to financial services and products, arguing that it had used the term since 2002 and had held a trade mark for it since then. [...] The judge in the case went further, though, restraining ORF from 'purchasing or using any form of advertising including keywords or "adwords" in internet advertising containing any mark incorporating Plaintiff's Mark, or any confusingly similar mark, and shall, when purchasing internet advertising using keywords, adwords or the like, require the activation of the term "Orion" as negative keywords or negative adwords in any internet advertising purchased or used.'"

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Editors please Edit! (Score:4, Funny)

by alta (1263) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:15PM (#23302422) Homepage Journal

The judge in the case went further, though, restraining ORF from 'purchasing or using any form of advertising including keywords or 'adwords' in internet advertising containing any mark incorporating Plaintiff's Mark, or any confusingly similar mark, and shall, when purchasing internet advertising using keywords, adwords or the like, require the activation of the term 'Orion' as negative keywords or negative adwords in any internet advertising purchased or used.
Do you realize how long this sentence is? Fine for court documents, but not for a casual news site.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by travdaddy (527149) writes: <travo AT linuxmail DOT org> on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:21PM (#23302508)

Do you realize how long this sentence is? Fine for court documents, but not for a casual news site.

It's fine, we're all very adept lawyers here.

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Misinterpreting negative (Score:5, Funny)

by Bovius (1243040) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:22PM (#23302514)

When I first read the post, for some reason I thought "negative keywords" meant they had to advertise under keywords that people wouldn't want, like "really bad financial service" or "shady loan company" or "housing lemons".

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Re:Orion Bankcorp: Crybabies (Score:5, Funny)

by JustOK (667959) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:23PM (#23302530) Journal

Plus, everyone knows the Orion is a satire/parody website.

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My interpretations: (Score:5, Funny)

by Alzheimers (467217) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:23PM (#23302532)

1) Company must now register and pay for the keywords "Dummy", "Poopiehead", "Fartsniffer", and "Boogerbrains"

or

2) Company must now register keywords that, when combined with their intended keywords, nullify each other out, like Semantic anti-matter.

or

3) Company may only use keywords that have a value less than zero.

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Re:Orion Bankcorp: Crybabies (Score:3, Funny)

by sm62704 (957197) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:24PM (#23302546) Journal

The bank one should change their name to "Orien's Moneybelt".

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by gbjbaanb (229885) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:28PM (#23302584)

ok. translation for the modern generation:

"you know dude, you been naughty. like stop it, k"

will that do ya?

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Re:My interpretations: (Score:4, Funny)

by Yvan256 (722131) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:31PM (#23302614) Homepage Journal

Company may only use keywords that have a value less than zero
Well, someone finally solved it:

1. Get sued for trademark infringement
2. Get court to force you to buy negative keywords (which value is less than zero)
3. Profits!

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by gnick (1211984) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:36PM (#23302652) Homepage

Do you realize how long this sentence is? Fine for court documents, but not for a casual news site.
Sometimes, due either to an attempt to communicate a complicated idea or the desire to expand on a simple idea ad nauseum for novelty purposes, a sentence will carry on for extended lines and, if properly authored by an individual using simple words and eschewing obfuscation, it will not necessarily be difficult for the general public to understand, even without the assistance of a lawyer, translator, or advanced Communications degree.

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But who is actually the Master of Orion? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:38PM (#23302680)

I think that the case should probably have been settled by whichever of the two originally defeated The Guardian. That's the only way I've ever known of to determine Orion ownership...

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Re:Orion, that's definitely a unique name.... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:57PM (#23302924)

What do you expect with Perl crap from the early 90s, you think they've heard of unicode and character encoding?

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by Hatta (162192) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:59PM (#23302952) Journal

They're lucky that's the only long sentence given by the judge.

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Aye Matey, forget Orion, call yourself Booties (Score:4, Funny)

by Orion Blastar (457579) writes: <orionblastar AT gmail DOT com> on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:00PM (#23302968) Homepage Journal

as in Pirate Booty or Booties plural.

Pirate Booties Bankcorp

You can hire Maddox to be your spokesperson.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:02PM (#23303000)

Sometimes, thoughts are complex.

The again, sometimes sentences (such as the one quoted), are just poorly written.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:4, Funny)

by Daffy Duck (17350) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:15PM (#23303172) Homepage

Also, not enough people think they're not smart or don't think that they aren't smart or are not smarter than they don't think.. wait, what was the question again?

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Re:The Wrong Cachet (Score:3, Funny)

by JasonKChapman (842766) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:17PM (#23303186) Homepage

I guess "Onion Residential Finance" would bring a tear.
Only in appeal.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:18PM (#23303202)

Also, sometimes people dro letters, from the ends of words, and use, too many, commas.

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Re:Bad precedent (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:20PM (#23303236)

your AAAA record for locksmiths.com in DNS is violating my trademark for "AAAA DNS Services". Only my company can do AAAA records in DNS.

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what? (Score:3, Funny)

by theshowmecanuck (703852) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:35PM (#23303438) Journal

IANAL

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:57PM (#23303698)

It scares me that I understood that.

I need a woman, NOW.

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Re:Orion Bankcorp: Crybabies (Score:3, Funny)

by DECS (891519) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @02:11PM (#23303804) Homepage Journal

It's in the title of a Prince song, so presumably it's a poetic reference to a vagina.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by SingerGuy59 (1279730) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @02:23PM (#23303896)

The magnitude of your copious assertion is far to sagacious for my diminutive comprehension.

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Re:My interpretations: (Score:3, Funny)

by WK2 (1072560) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @03:03PM (#23304268) Homepage

Just because you buy something with value less than zero, doesn't mean that you get paid money for accepting it. Windows Vista, for example.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by zippthorne (748122) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @04:09PM (#23304982) Journal

Legal rulings are like genie wishes (or is that the other way around...).

As soon as you hit the period, you get your wish. Usually corrupted in a horribly unforeseen way.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:4, Funny)

by Just Some Guy (3352) writes: <kirk+slashdot@strauser.com> on Monday May 05, 2008 @04:46PM (#23305308) Homepage Journal

What?

Many words OK.

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Re:Editors please Edit! (Score:5, Funny)

by popmaker (570147) writes: on Monday May 05, 2008 @04:57PM (#23305426)

I need a woman, NOW.
Well, if you REALLY want something incomprehensible, fine, go ahead.

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