Describing something that is oversized may soon involve a lawyer. The terms “titanic” and “gigantic” are both being considered for trademarking.

The man behind the plan, Clive Palmer, is an Australian billionaire who is having the Titanic completely re-created by a Chinese shipyard so it can set sail from England for North America in 2016. Palmer’s Blue Star Line, named after White Star Line, the company that owned the original Titanic, has filed a trademark request for a number of terms, including "Titanic," "Titanic II," "Titanic III," "Blue Star Line," and "Gigantic", although he's already promoting "Titanic II" on his website.

Palmer, a mining tycoon, believes that White Star Line had thought about naming one of its ships Gigantic, but never got around to it after its Titanic liner famously slammed into an iceberg near Newfoundland and sank, taking more than 1,500 lives along with it. “I think [the trademark application] will be OK,” Palmer said, according to Australia’s Boorowa News. “We'll just see how we go. I think there is a report back on it already, saying it is OK for a ship.”

However, there is some debate as to what he'll be able to trademark.Continue reading...

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Anyone who has taken the time to read the label of a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey has probably taken note of the population of Lynchburg, Tenn., the town where Jack Daniel’s is distilled: 361.

Well, its population hasn't been that number for decades, and Jack Daniel’s is replacing the folksy label with a new label that removes the population misinformation altogether and corrects a few other inaccurate details. For instance, the claim that Jack Daniel’s is the “Oldest Registered Distillery in the United States” is gone, as well as the citation of “Lem Motlow, Proprietor” — the Motlow family sold the distillery for $20 million in 1956 and it is owned by drinks giant Brown-Forman.

The new label even volunteers that Jack’s name was actually (gasp!) Jasper. But truth only goes so far. There seems little danger that your average biker is going to roll up to a bar and ask for a “shot of Jasper.”Continue reading...