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On October 24, Occupy Wall Street activists Pete Dutro and Victoria Sobel filed an application to trademark the movement’s phrase for a line of clothes, bags, stickers and magazines. But members of the dreaded 1% may have beaten them to it. Fer-Eng Investments, an Arizona limited liability corporation, is also seeking to secure the catchphrase for commercial purposes. Vincent Ferraro, who is named on the application, is the vice president and chief marketing officer of global marketing for Eastman Kodak, and also holds several consulting positions, American University’s Intellectual Property Brief reported. Unfortunately for Fer-Eng Investments, New York’s Occupy Wall Street applied for their trademark almost three hours earlier, and priority in such cases is usually given to whichever entity files its application first. —Photo by Brian Zak for The Daily

On October 24, Occupy Wall Street activists Pete Dutro and Victoria Sobel filed an application to trademark the movement’s phrase for a line of clothes, bags, stickers and magazines. But members of the dreaded 1% may have beaten them to it.

Fer-Eng Investments, an Arizona limited liability corporation, is also seeking to secure the catchphrase for commercial purposes. Vincent Ferraro, who is named on the application, is the vice president and chief marketing officer of global marketing for Eastman Kodak, and also holds several consulting positions, American University’s Intellectual Property Brief reported. Unfortunately for Fer-Eng Investments, New York’s Occupy Wall Street applied for their trademark almost three hours earlier, and priority in such cases is usually given to whichever entity files its application first.

—Photo by Brian Zak for The Daily

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    bad news bears
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    Maybe I’m the only one who finds this funny
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    This is awesome.
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    only in america
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    And I look forward to all the merchandise being stolen, defaced, or both.
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    lol Oh 1%… you just don’t get it, do you? Or you don’t care.
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    Reblogging not only for the facepalm-inducing news, but also because the first thing I noticed was >Fer-Eng Investments...
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    Been reading for about a week now about all these different people trying to trademark OWS. If you profit off of or...
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