I make a point of listening exclusively to inherently illegal music.

There's a decent chance, given the nature of the Bitcoin system, that this guy and his wife *do* "own, control, or create" some Bitcoins. My computer has been manufacturing Bitcoins all day, as have the computers of other Bitcoin miners. We then sell them to people on Bitcoin exchanges. So this guy wants to be the only vendor of "Bitcoin" brand Bitcoins (and would then presumably try to get everyone else to pay him for the privilege of talking about the thing they have?).

Thing is, there is no "they". Bitcoin is the name of a p2p network, accessed (primarily) though "the Bitcoin Client" (an open source program). The network is used to exchange "Bitcoins" (virtual money). If this works for this lawyer, I am trademarking "Euro".

AFAIK, "SEAL Team 6" is already in use. It's the name of one of the character models you can be in Counter-Strike: Source.

The ability for juries to second-guess the USPTO is the theoretical reason they're allowed to issue so many bad patents. The idea is that they grant patents after a cursory check, and if some interested party finds prior art they can take it up in court. If we get rid of that, we might as well replace the patent system with a free-money-for-patent-lawyers system.

How is using Roundup on Roundup-resistant crops non-obvious?

Some native-born American citizens speak Spanish as a first language.

There's a difference between "acting" and "threatening to murder people". One of them helps to influence the political process, while the other gets you thrown in jail. I'll let you decide which is which.

I'm not buying their service. I'm opting for one that doesn't do traffic shaping. Nothing that comes out of AOL/Time Warner is ever much good, anyway.