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Apple claim trademark on shiny speech bubbles –

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/developers-be-warned-apple-has-apparently-trademarked-those-shiny-chat-bubbles/

Sound trademark battle over duck whistles -

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/08/tour-companies-battle-over-trademarked-duck-noises.html

The American Football league have banned Twittering -

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10322904-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

Microsoft are pushing for a single global patent system -

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10334285-92.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0