More than 50 applications for the trademark registration of ‘Je suis Charlie’ have already been filed since the attack on the editorial staff of the satirical weekly magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’. Nevertheless, the French Patent Office (INPI), without unnecessary pathos, rejected them because of lack of distinctive character, arguing that the phrase is commonly used in society.
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