Colgate, the world’s largest producer of toothpaste, patented a toothcleaning powder in the hope that it would take the multibillion-dollar Indian oral hygiene market by storm. However, this product has been used by locals fo ‘hundreds, if not thousands of years’.
There are some really bizarre cases out there. Once a japanese company tried to trademark a common portuguese word for a fruit
Thats crazy, just like Paris Hilton trying to copyright the phrase ‘that’s hot’.
These people are really crazy.. just like religious fundamentalists..