Lululemon and Olympic trademarks

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Catching up on old news, and I just came across this.

(Yes, it has to do with intellectual property, so there is a security tie-in  :-)

VANOC, the organizing committee for the Olympics in Vancouver (aka "those 
arrogant &*%^#%s") have trademarked just about everything you could think of 
that is even vaguely related to the games, including the words "games," the digit 
sequence "2010," and a line from our national anthem:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2008/09/25/bc-vancouver-olympics-trademark-o-
canada.html

So a clothing company managed to find a cheeky way around all that:

http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickggomepeahoadkiholoff&M=26

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