Kink.com wants to trademark “fuckingmachines.com” but can’t, because a 1905 law prohibits issuing trademarks for naughty words.

The attorney’s meditations on the word ‘fuck’ didn’t win the court over, but it made me smile:

AVN :: Articles – Patent Office Refuses Porn Site Trademark Due To ‘Obscenity’ NSFW
“The Applicant respectfully challenges this characterization of the word ‘fucking’ and its allegedly ‘offensive and vulgar’ root: ‘fuck,’” Randazza wrote. “[T]his much maligned four-letter word has no intrinsic meaning. Fuck [can] play a role as a figurative term, for example, ‘to fuck’ can also mean ‘to deceive.’ It is a word of force that can assist us in our expressions of joy when used as an infix, as in ‘abso-fucking-lutely’. ‘Fuck’ helps us express rage when we scream ‘fuck you’ at a football referee, or at a motorist who has just cut us off in traffic. ‘Fuck’ can help us express pain, as it is quite frequently the first thing out of most men’s mouths when they strike their thumb (accidentally) with a hammer. ‘Fuck’ is a vehicle for our disappointment, when we see that our report card is not as good as we had hoped, or when our significant other is late for dinner, or leaves us altogether. ‘Fuck’ is an old friend, who can always make us laugh.”

It also made me sad because once again, it shows how we have to take the sex out of something to make it legitimate.

Points on for use of ‘infix’ though.