Pioneer Hi-Bred has marketed corn hybrids with tolerance to imidazoline herbicides under the trademark " Clearfield "-though in these hybrids, the herbicide-tolerance trait was bred using tissue culture selection and the chemical mutagen ethyl methanesulfonate not genetic engineering.

It has exercised its trademark rights as recently as 2005.

Though such use is not encouraged by the company, the common use of the name as a generic term has put the trademark in jeopardy.

The franchisee is obligated to carry out the services for which the trademark has been made prominent or famous.

The place of service has to bear the franchisor's signs, logos and trademark in a prominent place.

His solemn, trademark oath has become a popular catchphrase: " By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged !".

The brand has gone through many owners, starting with Willys, which produced the first Civilian Jeep ( CJ ) in 1945 and who were the first granted the trademark in 1950.

It has become a trademark feature of his books that instead of a picture of the artist, there is an elaborately decorated rectangle sporting the words " Now Printing ".

The high microphone position has become a Lemmy trademark.

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

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Many of its products feature the Mobil symbol of a winged red horse, Pegasus, which has been a company trademark since its affiliation with Magnolia Petroleum Company in the 1930s.

Owing to the dominance of Tayto in the Irish market, the word has become a genericized trademark.

Irem has used R-Type and its Bydo villains for more than a few of their trademark elaborate April Fool's Day pranks.

While the word has stuck and is often used to describe clay animation and stop motion, it remains a trademark owned currently by Laika Entertainment, Inc.

However, the industry faces challenges due to plagiarism of the word " Shetland " by manufacturers operating elsewhere and a certification trademark, " The Shetland Lady ", has been registered.

" With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona.

Records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office indicate the trademark has expired and is considered dead.

One such example since the 1970s has been the recurring rumor that the Procter and Gamble Company was associated with Satan worshippers because of details within its nineteenth-century trademark.

This has become a trademark feature of Volvo products ever since.

Kahlúa is the brand of coffee liqueur most commonly associated with White Russians, mostly because it has become something of a genericized trademark for coffee liqueur.

* August 2 – JCPenney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.

Nicks has even commented in interviews recently that she never would have dreamed that her trademark " Bella Donna / Witchy Woman " image would have been taken so seriously by her fans, often joking that she does not live her private life in her stage clothes and " Stevie garb " as many people seem to think.

However, she greatly credits her career / stage image for its role in giving her a trademark that has made her unique and " timeless.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

Beyond his technical skills, Wall has a reputation for his wit and for his often sarcastic sense of humour, which he displays in the comments to his source code or on Usenet.

Unlike most other entities it is capable of conscience, compassion, and even a sense of humour, and has stated that it wants other cosmic beings to develop such as well.

A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature.

A case which has provoked an unusual amount of comment in the academic literature is Mozart's scatological humour.

Burke, in a memorable passage of a memorable speech, has described this " chequered and speckled " administration with great humour, speaking of it as " patriots and courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ... indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on.

Although Baron Cohen has repeatedly stated that the Ali G character is a parody of suburban, privileged youth ' acting black ', numerous commentators have opined that the force of the humour is derived from stereotypes of blacks, not poser whites.

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that ' I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.

For instance, the Illustrated London News praised the work of both Gilbert and, especially, Sullivan: " Sir Arthur Sullivan has eminently succeeded alike in the expression of refined sentiment and comic humour.

This style is the principal reason why it has never been among Shakespeare's most popular plays ; the pedantic humour makes it extremely inaccessible to contemporary theatregoers.

A number of Amis's characteristics show up here for the first time: mordant black humour, obsession with the zeitgeist, authorial intervention, a character subjected to sadistically humorous misfortunes and humiliations, and a defiant casualness (" my attitude has been, I don't know much about science, but I know what I like ").

Elsewhere however it is suggested that such views are partly based on a misreading of the films, especially his earlier ones, which has impeded an appreciation of the exhilarating humour and irony which pervade his work ; and other viewers have been able to make the connection between the film's form and its human dimension.

John Otway, ( born 2 October 1952, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England ) is an English singer-songwriter, who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.

He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear ( which, because of Fear's raucous performance and the ultra-dark humour of the sketches, has never been re-transmitted on television since its original airing ).

Heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic origins the culture of Australia has also been shaped by multi-ethnic migration which has influenced all aspects of Australian life, including business, the arts, cooking, sense of humour and sporting tastes.

Post-war immigration has seen migrant humour flourish: from They're a Weird Mob ( 1957 ) about an Italian immigrant adapting to Sydney life, to the works of Vietnamese refugee Anh Do, Egyptian stand-up comic Akmal Saleh and Nick Giannopoulos ' Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos ( 2010 ) about second generation Australian Greeks returning to their ancestral home.

The need to laugh in the face of danger while battling the landscape has provoked a strange view of the world, with a distinctive upside-down sense of humour.

Yet it is only since the 1990s that the term tactical frivolity has gained common currency for describing the use of humour in opposing perceived political injustice.

One of the earliest protest groups whose use of humour has been specifically described as " tactical frivolity " is Orange Alternative, a movement that emerged in Poland during the early 1980s as a part of the broader Solidarity campaign.

It is a comparison which Redwood has not taken in good humour.

Benson also sees that Bond has developed something of a sense of humour in Goldfinger, verbally abusing Oddjob, to Bond's own amusement.