Ohio State Finally Trademarks 'The'

by Larry Leo

June 22, 20229 Comments

Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports

If you've ever watched Monday Night Football you've seen Ohio State alum refer to their alma mater as "The Ohio State University." It's been referred as that for over a century, but finally the Buckeyes have trademarked "The"...

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Clark14•22 months

Are those arrogant pricks going to sue me if I ignore this crap? This is texas level of ignorance…

kywildcatfanone•22 months

So I can't use the the word anymore without paying them?

Crusty•22 months

I am going to submit my application for "University". While I'm at it...why not "and", "uh", hell I am going to apply for the letter "e"!

VoxDawg•22 months

Gay.

PeleofAnalytics•22 months

Not 100% sure all the legal crap meant but it sounds like a narrow set of items that it applies to. Basically sports clothing or memorabilia that have the word "the" set by itself. Sounds dumb but trademark law is weird.

CasinoIke•22 months

Guess they will be suing Miami players when they say 'The U'. This is the epitome of why the country is the living in the ME era...we are doomed.

PeleofAnalytics•22 months

FFS, it only applies to very narrow circumstances and items. Sports clothing that have "THE" clearly set apart to accentuate it. A shirt that says "The Fighting Tigers" is OK.
A shirt that says "The...." on the front and "...LSU Tigers" on the back is not so much.

Can you clutch your pearls a little harder? The word "baggy" is trademarked and nobody claimed it was the sign of the apocalypse when it happened. And I hate to have to explain it to you but you don't get sued for saying a trademarked word any more than you would get sued for saying "I like my iphone".

Fox McCloud•22 months

How did that possibly get approved. So many schools say that

boogiewoogie1978•22 months

How can you trademark THE? Those greedy bastards.

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