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I don't think trademark protection works like that, unfortunately. I think you try to register the trademark and then anyone in opposition files their opposition to attempt to either get you to withdraw your attempt at registering it, or to get you to amend your registration (so maybe here it'd be adding FC after the word Liverpool). I think if they do nothing though, they risk losing the right to claim a trademark on their merchandise - which means they risk losing a claim against various counterfeiters. I think the smaller clubs will be fine using shit like City of Liverpool in their club names. I think the people who've got the most right to be annoyed are the local shirt manufacturers that make better t-shirts for LFC related stuff than the club, because they'll likely have their businesses more impact. But going back to those other clubs using "Liverpool" in their name - I think because of those clubs existing prior to the club trying to register any mark... they'll likely fail to successfully register the trademark. But I think from a legal standpoint, if a business is seen to be doing nothing to try to protect it's intellectual property, then that can be used as evidence as to why they wouldn't care about future trademark, copyright, patent, etc... infringements in the future. I remember when there was an outcry about the attempt for the club to trademark the Liverbird (not just any Liverbird generally, but specifically the one that's got a talon over a football... the one we use on our kits). That was done over concern about counterfeiting - I suspect that this attempt to trademark the word Liverpool is the same. But I think in this instance, courts would find that you can't just trademark "Liverpool" broadly in a football sense, they'll need to add "Liverpool Football Club" or Liverpool FC" to the registration. Because there are 3 football clubs in England (that I know of) with Liverpool in the name, so I think it's unlikely they'd succeed in registering a trademark that'd fuck those clubs over.

It's not about that though. Almost every club has foreign ownership now, but what sets PSG and Man City apart is the source of their money being directly linked to highly corrupt ruling regimes in countries which don't acknowledge basic human rights. They are major PR machines for those ruling families saying "look at our football clubs so that you aren't looking at what we're doing in our country". It's no coincidence that the clubs linked to these regimes, who are used to doing whatever the fuck they want because they own the police, legal institutions and basically anything that would hold a government or ruling family to account in a "normal" country, are the same clubs who stand accused of trying to skirt the financial fair play regulations through various loopholes and possible bribery, at least in City's case. They just dont know how to be told "no you can't do that" because to them it means "stick some more zeros on that number please". It's what they know. Man Utd fans probably don't get a lot of shit over the foreign ownership because of all of the clubs who have sold out to overseas tycoons, their fanbase (at least the actual Manchester fans) made a much bigger fuss about trying to fuck the Glazers off than any other club has done since, so they do have that going for them.

I think it's more to go after counterfeiters than to harass the small little clubs that have "Liverpool" in their name

I think Hoever's going to be the long term backup to Trent, tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if by the time the season started (and if Clyne was still fit) that Hoever'd be ahead of him in the pecking order - he's the most like for like replacement we've got with Trent and while I think Clyne is solid... he's not really the same sort of fullback to properly fit in our system. This is shit for the club and for Clyne because Clyne further has his career hampered by injury issues... and now he won't play for a while (maybe not again this season, depending on if we're lucky enough to avoid injuries) and he's missing out on two windows. It also probably destroys what transfer value he might have had for us, he'll be leaving us for much cheaper than he would have otherwise - which is a bit of a shit thing to think after a player you like suffers a bad injury... but at this point, yeah it's first team wages to a player that's far from the first team.

Earth just had a near-miss with a 'city killer' asteroid Joe Gamp VIDEO An asteroid dubbed a ‘city-killer’ narrowly missed colliding into the Earth, say scientists. Asteroid 2019 OK - around 100 metres in diameter and racing at 24 kilometres a second - raced past earth at around 11.22am on Thursday morning. Astronomers had no idea the rock was heading towards our planet, due to the asteroid flying towards us from the direction of the sun. Associate Professor Michael Brown, from Monash University, said: “It’s impressively close. I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet. It’s a pretty big deal. "[If it hit Earth] it makes the bang of a very large nuclear weapon – a very large one." Three other asteroids also raced past Earth on Thursday, but none were as close or as large as 2019 OK. The asteroid was picked up by separate astronomy teams based in Brazil and the US over the past few days. Swinburne University astronomer Associate Professor Alan Duffy: "It would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima. "It's a city-killer asteroid. But because it's so small, it's incredibly hard to see until right at the last minute. "It's threading tightly between the lunar orbit. Definitely too close for comfort." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/earth-just-had-a-near-miss-with-a-city-killer-asteroid/ar-AAERcGr?ocid=chromentp

I'm in shock. What an absolute fucking idiot if this is true. FINALLY gets his shot at Wilder and this happens. His career is over if it's true and i hope it is. He should be fined his purse for the Rivas bout and more. Can't believe it.

LightSail 2 spacecraft has successfully deployed its sail and is now sailing solely on sunlight. First images have been downloaded and released: Beautiful...

Met Matic the other week before the United v Glory game. We were in the same lift together so took the chance to be a “fan”. To be fair, lovely polite lad.