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Occupy Wall Street applies for trademark

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Even anarchic movements like to have some legal protections: Occupy Wall Street's organizers have applied to trademark their movement's name.

In an application dated October 24, the unincorporated association "Occupy Wall Street" applied for the trademark to "Occupy Wall Street." The trademark application says the group would like to use the phrase on merchandise such as clothing and bags, in periodicals and newsletters, and on a website featuring "photographic, audio, video and prose presentations" about the Occupy movement.

The Occupy group has been screen-printing t-shirts and other items in Zuccotti Park, and plans to continue doing so once it has trademark protection, according to a representative.

But Occupy Wall Street is not the only entity to apply for the trademark to its name.

O.K. alright! Now I didn't fall of a Federal Express truck yesterday!
But since when did a grassroots movement, with no leadership, collectively apply for a "Trademark"?

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/31/news/economy/occupy_wall_street_trademark/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

I just can't help but think of those tens of thousands of patsies out there roughing in the parks, in some demented flashmob, being played by Robert and Diane Maresca.
And why are they getting special treatment in the expediency of their patent?

Tea Party meet your Liberal Equivalent.

This party has been co-opted. Get your Donkey on Ya'll!