Originally published Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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"Obama bin Laden" trademark rejected
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a Miami Beach man's application to trademark the name "Obama bin Laden" because the name...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a Miami Beach man's application to trademark the name "Obama bin Laden" because the name "may falsely suggest a connection with the individuals Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama," USPTO lawyer Karen Bush said in a Feb. 6 rejection letter, the Miami Herald reported this week.
You can't get a trademark for "immoral or scandalous matter," Bush said.
The applicant, Alexandre Batlle, sells coffee mugs, T-shirts, hats and such. One has a cartoon of presidential candidates Obama — in a robe and turban and holding a machine gun — and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in an Arab caftan.
Clinton foes aim to make film
WASHINGTON — A veteran conservative activist and Bill Clinton's former political adviser are trying to raise $3.5 million to produce a movie critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, aiming its release for October or November — ahead of the 2008 presidential caucuses and primaries.
Dave Bossie, who during the 2004 campaign produced "Celsius: 41.11," a feature-length response to liberal filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," is teaming with Dick Morris, who advised former President Clinton on and off from the late 1970s to 1996.
Bossie said their movie will "educate the American people about Hillary Clinton."
Critics say Bossie and Morris are collaborating on a "swift-boating" attack — reference to a documentary on 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry by Vietnam veterans calling themselves the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said of the Bossie-Morris project. "We're not going to allow anyone to get away with smearing Sen. Clinton or misrepresenting her record."
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