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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* The WWF ([[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]) No Mercy manual (and probably others) had a TM symbol for every <s>wrestler</s> superstar mentioned in the opening blurb. As in: "Matt Hardy™ went on to fight Christian™..."

** According to a minor wrestler just starting, the entire reason that [[Big Bad|Vince McMahon]] has them take face names: so he can own the name and persona.

** Of course, the memorable backfire is of Gangrel™, a trademark of [[White Wolf]].

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''™: "...with my all new DUEL DISK SYSTEM! ...Trademark".

* In ''[[AH Dot Com the Series]]'', [[Thande]]'s all-purpose suggestion to solve any problem is "Daring Commando Raid™"

* [http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=20506=wmv ScrewAttack's list of Worst Fighting Games Ever] says "Batman (trademark) and Superman (trademark)" during ''Justice League Task Force''.

* Charlie from [http://www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike Charlieissocoolike] does this constantly regarding the phrase "What I decided to do." He pronounces the ™ Tee Em.

* ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' blows this out the window in episode 3. Matt Groening says that he is here to prevent RAB from out-grossing his "vastly superior Simpsons©®™©®©©®©™™©©™™™™™™ movie. (Make sure subtitles are on.)"

* This exchange from [[Hellfire Commentaries]]' [[Sonic the Hedgehog CD|Sonic CD]] playthrough, describing the race against Metal Sonic:

** Actually, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101029125658/http://www.linuxmark.org/attribution.php you're required to write Linux®] anyway, as the name was trademarked to prevent trolls from registering the name and shaking other publishers down for "royalties" to use it. This fact is great for countertrolling Slashtards who can't help but reflexively type out "(TM) Micro$oft(TM) Whinedoze(TM)(TM)".

** Thanks to a lot of software cross-compatibility, operating systems like Linux, BSD forks, and Mac's Mach/BSD kernel have become known as "*NIX" platforms.

* Numerous A-list porn stars have their names (or, more accurately, their stage names) trademarked. This is disconcerting enough, but particularly weird in the case of alt-porn star Stoya, whose stage name is no more than a clipped form of her real last name.

* Tell him that's silly to [[Harlan Ellison]], who actually ''did'' register his name as a trademark.

** It's also a de-facto obstacle to the use of "bake off" in other domains, such as technical competitions for computer coding. Legal precedent already establishes that trademarks apply to very specific categories of goods or services (so Star Wars® as a Lucasfilm® flick isn't entitled to preclude hard news reports from using the term "star wars" as a derogatory label for Ronny Raygun's "Strategic Defence Initiative" from [[The Eighties]]) but the technical competitions are promoted mostly by small, university-backed non-commercial groups who can't afford real money for real lawyers to defend against Pillsbury® legal bullying.

** And yes, this works both ways. Pillsbury® used to own Burger King® but found the name already in use in [[Australia]]. They already owned Hungry Jack® as a brand of flapjack mix, so they named the restaurants Hungry Jack's®.

* Remember: This image has been manipulated by [http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressmaterials/pdfs/photoshop_guidelines_pr.pdf Adobe® Photoshop® software].

* Just to note, the last major men's football tournament was not [[The World Cup]], it was the FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil™