Monday, February 14, 2011

Patent Application of the Week

Harlequin Attempts to Patent the Kiss: "Talk about lip service: Harlequin Enterprises, renowned publisher of pulp romance novels, has applied for a patent on the romantic kiss.

The application, if granted, leaves open the possibility that we may one day have to pay a licensing fee to lock lips with the ones we covet.

Don't start worrying yet. Harlequin, which releases 110 novels a month and publishes in 115 countries around the world, said it would keep any patented kisses in the public domain."

3 comments:

Jerry House said...

Harlequin, in this PR push, has probably not made a friend of Hersheys.

In other news, Subway is trying to trademark the word "footlong", pissing off a number of fast food chains and porno actors.

Harmon said...

It fails the "obvious" test.

Deb said...

This seems to be a trend. In addition to Subway's "footlong" attempt, don't forget Sarah & Bristol Palin are attempting to trademark their names.