"YahooPhone" and "YPhone" trademarks filed for... by Hop-on?
We've heard a lot of talk from Hop-on, makers of all those cheap cellphones that never seem to go anywhere, but the company may have bitten off a little more than it can chew with its latest trademark registration filings for "YahooPhone" and "YPhone." Yep, that's right -- those names bring to mind any massive consumer-oriented companies that might not be happy? Oh, right. There's been some speculation that Hop-on is actually developing a phone for Yahoo!, since it has some deals in place with AT&T and Verizon, but it's pretty unlikely the company is also in charge of branding to the point where it's registering trademarks. No, our guess is that someone's hoping that the folks up in Sunnyvale are a little too distracted by the clumsy advances of one Mr. Ballmer to keep track of a little thing like potentially infringing trademark registrations -- yeah, we don't think that's going to work out so well for you, guys.[Via Trademork]
Read - YahooPhone filing
Read - YPhone filing
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
phanbouy @ Feb 15th 2008 5:12PM
Better watch it with that stairs-car; you're gonna get a few hop-ons. /irrelevance
DarkLightConnection @ Feb 15th 2008 5:19PM
YPhone.... where did I hear that before?..... Oh, yes...
Simon @ Feb 15th 2008 5:21PM
they forgot the ! :p
horizontaleight @ Feb 15th 2008 5:24PM
George Michael even got his first hop-on. I was going to video tape that...
phanbouy @ Feb 15th 2008 5:26PM
finally! i can't believe the geeks haven't coopted arrested development yet!
XR @ Feb 15th 2008 6:24PM
And, of course, like all Hop-On products, this will be available soon, but will never be for sale. I wonder how they still can be in business, since I don't think they do ANYTHING...
phanbouy @ Feb 15th 2008 6:39PM
the 80's called, they want their radioshack cordless telephones back
ngamer007 @ Feb 15th 2008 7:00PM
You're gonna get hop-ons.
wickedpheonix @ Feb 15th 2008 7:14PM
Can you spell fail?
Kizorblade @ Feb 15th 2008 11:24PM
F - A - E - L
Tim Shundo @ Feb 16th 2008 2:37AM
I designed their new website. Bastards still owe me $500. >_>
Get it on paper kids or you'll regret it.
Tim @ Feb 16th 2008 4:09AM
They only trademarked it so the can block Yahoo! from any phone development or so they can sell it to Yahoo! for a price.