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I now follow the author dedicated to fighting her on Twitter, so I can follow the insanity without adding to her follower count. So I can be amused/baffled/angry daily.

I made the mistake of checking out our cocky friend, and I urge you all not to do it. Seriously. Talk about ego?

Point 4 was left intentionally blank. And unintentionally mysterious. Also, some more info including an interesting point about the font apparantly having T&Cs that it can’t be trademarked. Well I thought it was interesting. http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/cocky-writer-romance-author-faleena-hopkins-trademarks-cocky-and-tries-to-shut-down-others-using-the-word.php

Yes, yes ‘coincidental’. Judge: Why… Why are you making air quotes?

Not libel if any resemblances are purely coincidental

How did you know libel is my favorite genre of lawsuit?

A failed romance involving a writer that wordmarked the word “Cocky”?

Can you say DESPERATE MARKETING PLOY? The writer in me is like, I don’t even write romance but I kinda want to now for the express purpose of stirring the pot. The marketer in me is like, weirdly impressed. Hey, it’s hard out here for a bitch

Wow. I just woke up so wut r werds, but wow. Very first thing that came to mind was “fuck you, now I’m gonna write a romance with cocky in the title” too. There’s like a million books titled “Alone” and somehow the suspense reading community doesn’t implode. I remember looking for a series called Raised by Wolves, and finding a million other books, but I was able to purchase the right one by looking at the authors name. If your title is distinct, sure, but then trademark the whole thing. You shouldn’t be able to trademark a single word that exists in the dictionary. It’s just greedy and mean. And I kinda wanna debate point 4.

I think some people are definitely hoping to garner publicity for a novel that most likely is cocky enough to promise more than it can deliver, which I find exceedingly cheeky.

If this author has a trade/wordmark on “Cocky”, then they have to defend it or lose it, that’s the nature of trademarks. Now, some firms do it with grace, Jack Daniels is one that comes to mind. In this particular instance, I do think having the trademark is a bit cocky, but if you’ve got a series, you have to trademark something distinctive about it. (ie “Harry Potter”). For romance, “Cocky” would certainly be in the list of candidates … is “Sexy” trademarked?

So, why do “family friendly” places get so upset when you try to create a family there?