Jeb Bush Fails to Secure Trademark on Jeb!

[anobserver2]

(Newser) – Jeb Bush has abandoned his trademark for "Jeb!," Mother Jones reports. Perhaps it was getting harder to muster the enthusiasm necessary for an exclamation point when your polling numbers suggest something closer to Jeb? or Jeb[shrugging emoticon].

According to the Washington Post, Bush is currently sitting around seventh in the Republican presidential field.

Mother Jones reports Bush's BHAG LLC—it stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal—filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office to use Jeb! on "leather key chains, stadium cushions, stemware, stuffed toys, hair bands, and other cool stuff" last January.

But Bush failed to give written permission to the Patent and Trade Office to use his name for the trademark, and Jeb! was considered abandoned last month, Mother Jones reports. That means anyone is free to start selling Jeb! brand merchandise . . . .

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http://www.newser.com/story/217999/jeb-bush-fails-to-secure-trademark-on-jeb.html

[anobserver2]

1. Huh. So even Jeb is bored with Jeb!

I think this is an even bigger fail than his campaign's omission to register the domain name.

[anobserver2]

2. Here's the Mother Jones link to the original (and longer) article

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/jeb-abandons-jeb-exclamation-point

[Ino]

3. To think I was worried he would run (nt)

[UTUSN]

4. That's because there's supposed to be a "1" after the "!" as in JEB!1 n/t