ummm... (Score 1)

First of all, it wasn't Kasner himself who coined the term... It was his 9-year-old nephew. Secondarily, the term is not trademarked. You can say, "but how was Kasner to know, at that point, that the word would bring someone else such success?" Well, that's the thing. It's his fault for not making it known that he considered that word his own property. The family apparently feels "ripped off," as if the fact that they created this word should have brought them, not Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the success that google.com achieved. Seems like they're mainly just looking for ways to mooch off of other people's success.