Paris Hilton Sues over "that's Hot" greeting card

[huedell]

This isn't about money....hell she's already rich. It's about publicity. It's always been Paris's mission to be famous. Plan and simple.

With all respect----from what I understand about trademark,
and the habits of lawyers in general regarding intellectual property,
this is a wrong take carm

When people work to create something that is worth something in
the marketplace, expect them to fight anyone that is trying to intrude
or feed on that

As I said on the previous page:
"If any one is fishing for publicity it's HALLMARK because even tho' Paris
potentially may be as stupid as she looks---they gotta know her LAWYERS
aren't"

But this has nothing to do with publicity and everything to do with
Paris (or the PARIS COMPANY so to speak) protecting what Paris rightfully
has the right to protect, and because Paris is so rich she can afford to go
after a big fish like HALLMARK

It'd be significantly harder for a less wealthy person to do so--

[Marvelmania]

Poor Hallmark. They must be in real trouble if they have to use such a 2 bit skank *****'s picture.

[toys2cool]

Poor Hallmark. They must be in real trouble if they have to use such a 2 bit skank *****'s picture.

yeah but she is hot! skinny as hell but cute

[Marvelmania]

I agree with you on many things bro but not this one. Skinny? Yes. Hot? Absolutely not. She is everything that is wrong with the perception of a successful woman today. She makes a living by playing stupid, living excessively, and whoring and selling herself out. While I am attracted to looks and attitude, morals have much more to do with it. Just my 2 cents.

[Steeler80]

I agree with you on many things bro but not this one. Skinny? Yes. Hot? Absolutely not. She is everything that is wrong with the perception of a successful woman today. She makes a living by playing stupid, living excessively, and whoring and selling herself out. While I am attracted to looks and attitude, morals have much more to do with it. Just my 2 cents.

Thirded.

[huedell]

Poor Hallmark. They must be in real trouble if they have to use such a 2 bit skank *****'s picture.

HALLMARK being "in trouble" may explain why they would be stupid enough to do this

I'm out of the loop enough to not even be sure (I have no TV or radio)...but
I'd say "PARIS FEVER" is a lot less than it was a while back

HALLMARK seems to be to sticking their neck out here
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yeah but she is hot! skinny as hell but cute

I agree and morals have nothing to do with it

she's a sex symbol celebrity, not a potential girlfriend :(

[Meule]

When people work to create something that is worth something in the marketplace, expect them to fight anyone that is trying to intrude or feed on that

I'm still waiting for Paris to create something worthwhile

[Comic Book Geek]

I sure am glad that I had "Are you ready for Beans?" trademarked, because as soon as they do this to me I'm cashing in.

[huedell]

I'm still waiting for Paris to create something worthwhile

Believe me, I was thinking of a million ways to word what I typed ---knowing
that someone would say as such ---hey, you know, its something that has
value in the marketplace---whether or not you or I would buy it---well,
that's a different story
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What a joke! How can you own a phrase?
So I can go buy "Hi John" and whenever someone says "hi John" to me, they owe me a couple bucks?
Funny thing is, people I know have used "Thats Hot" in the same context Paris does BEFORE SHE WAS BORN.
Its about time some of the parents of these spoilled little rich girls spank some asses.

Spank her all ya want ---if yer lucky enough

But really man---the thing that you're ruffled about? Don't be.

Instead FIND something as simple as "Hi John" that can be worth something
in the marketplace---have it trademarked---and make some dough---that's
the American way---and its better than the ol' "9 to 5" to make a buck,
I'd say----and would have nothing to do with you being a "spoiled kid"

And, by the way---I'm right there with ya-----before PARIS became popular,
I had a comic strip that used the phrase "That's hot" in it one time---
Someone saw it a few years later ---after Paris hit the scene---and they
assumed I was making a Paris reference-----oh well

[batmanmc]

Thirded.

amen steeler. couldnt agree more.

[theantiquetiger]

This thread, "That's Hot!!!"

[Meule]

Instead FIND something as simple as "Hi John" that can be worth something in the marketplace---have it trademarked---and make some dough---that's the American way---and its better than the ol' "9 to 5" to make a buck

That's what's wrong with your country. You people think sueing and making a quick buck is the answer to everything.
"Ooh, I have cancer, better sue Marlboro."
"Crap, I'm fat and I had a heart attack, better sue McDonald's."

Stop smoking and exercise in stead, but don't blame someone else for your own mistakes.

And believe me, there's a lot of people over here who feel that way about it.

[arrowfiend]

This thread, "That's Hot!!!"

No!!!!!

Now she's going to sue the museum.

[huedell]

That's what's wrong with your country. You people think sueing and making a quick buck is the answer to everything.
"Ooh, I have cancer, better sue Marlboro."
"Crap, I'm fat and I had a heart attack, better sue McDonald's."

Stop smoking and exercise in stead, but don't blame someone else for your own mistakes.

And believe me, there's a lot of people over here who feel that way about it.

And believe me, me and the other people that are proud to be Americans
don't give a flying fig WHAT you feel

You have a lot of a lot of nerve calling out me and other Americans just
because I went thru the trouble of explaining to someone that its
okay to make a quick buck by trademarking something and getting use out
of it (and defending that trademark when its violated)

but, Thomas, I should know better----as you showed the same kind of
ignorance when Paramounts lawyers tried to protect their rights

You see if people DON'T do that (look after their intellectual property)
---it's called: "stupid"

To liken suing someone spilling coffee on their lap and suing---
or the "cancer/Malboro" suing thing you cited, or the "fat/heart attack"
thing to the "PARIS protecting her effin' trademark" ordeal here is also stupid

Congratulatioins on making yourself not only look like an idiot in
that respect----but you took THAT a step further
and made yourself out also to be a bitter anti-American froriegner in a thread
where you were totally unprovoked in acting as such

[ABMAC]

And believe me, me and the other people that are proud to be Americans
don't give a flying fig WHAT you feel

You have a lot of a lot of nerve calling out me and other Americans just
because I went thru the trouble of explaining to someone that its
okay to make a quick buck by trademarking something and getting use out
of it (and defending that trademark when its violated)

but, Thomas, I should know better----as you showed the same kind of
ignorance when Paramounts lawyers tried to protect their rights

You see if people DON'T do that (look after their intellectual property)
---it's called: "stupid"

To liken suing someone spilling coffee on their lap and suing---
or the "cancer/Malboro" suing thing you cited, or the "fat/heart attack"
thing to the "PARIS protecting her effin' trademark" ordeal here is also stupid

Congratulatioins on making yourself not only look like an idiot in
that respect----but you took THAT a step further
and made yourself out also to be a bitter anti-American froriegner in a thread
where you were totally unprovoked in acting as such

How can you deny that too many Americans sue over stupid crap. I don't know how we compare statistically to Belgium in that regard, but it's obvious they don't have a serious problem with abuse of their legal system or else Thomas wouldn't have commented on it. Good for them, and good for Thomas.

To protect a trademark, a company has to prove that they use it for trade, and that they have a proprietary right to its exclusive use. I don't believe Paris Hilton can do either. "That's hot" is a common phrase and has been since before Paris Hilton was a tiny skankling. She may be able to stop them from using her picture, although I doubt it, but to seriously suggest that she owns "That's hot" is absurd. She'll be lucky if Hallmark doesn't sue her for interfering with their use of the phrase.

Paris Hilton is a stupid media ***** who didn't even finish regular high school. For a person with her kind of money, that's inexcusable. To have intellectual property, you must first have an intellect. If she ever had any living brain cells, she killed them long ago. All she has now is her willingness to do anything to keep her worm-like self feeding midstream in America's high colonic spotlight. At least we know she'll end up succumbing to her excesses before she reaches her thirties.