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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 10:07 AM
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Bin Laden -- a Brand You Can Trust (family name - trademarked)
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 10:20 AM by truthpusher
"trademark which it had initially granted in August 2001" a month before 9/11?

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7727380

Bin Laden -- a Brand You Can Trust
Thu Feb 24, 2005 08:23 AM ET

GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have ruled that a Geneva-based half-brother of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has the right to use the family name as a trademark.

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In July 2002 the Federal Intellectual Property Institute revoked the trademark which it had initially granted in August 2001 -- a month before al Qaeda launched suicide plane attacks on the United States that killed 3,000 people.

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But an appeals body, in a decision taken last June but only just published, said public order had not been disrupted and that trademarks should be revoked only in exceptional circumstances.

Bin Ladin has repeatedly condemned the Sept. 11 attacks and loss of life.

A dual Swiss-Saudi national who has lived in the Geneva area for two decades, he plans to market a perfume under the name "Yeslam" with the "YB" logo later this year.

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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 10:10 AM
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