Now that you know what we’re talking about (because you read the earlier post below), here’s another (but not so very different) perspective:
TRADEMARK SHENANIGANS: WEIGHING IN ON #COCKYGATE
by Victoria Strauss
If you’re a writer, and you hang out on Twitter and Facebook, you’ve probably heard about #cockygate.
If you haven’t….An author named Faleena Hopkins has registered two separate trademarks for the word “cocky”, which is used in all the titles of her multi-book romance series. One of the trademarks is a design mark (the word “cocky” in a stylized font, as seen above); the other is a word mark (just the word “cocky”). Both refer to “a series of downloadable e-books in the field of romance” and “a series of books in the field of romance.”