Aussies keep their Ugg Boots

At last.... a case of a win for the little guy.

After some big American 'Johnny-Come-Lately' decided to hijack the name...by registering it....it all looked like the 'bastards had won again'....but no, what has been a generic term for sheep-skin boots, in Australia for around a half century has been determined in court as Generic....and SO IT SHOULD.

The biggest insult was the demand-letter to the Australian Macquarie Dictionary to alter its definitions to include 'Dekker' as trademark owner, etc.

You can sell the bloody shoes...but you cannot own the idea.

Stick that in your corporate pipe....and smoke it....;p

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some big American 'Johnny-Come-Lately



sometimes, i feel so ashamed.



Glad y'all won.

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That was educational........I always called them shit-kickin' boots......

Armed with this knowledge, I can now pull up my uggs and die a happy man.
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sometimes, i feel so ashamed.


"sometimes" ?
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not as often as the rest of my family
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Sometimes somebody has to save us from ourselves. Too bad the same ruling doesn't apply to "patents" on genes...

Link please, to picture of the real thing (not the yuppified version)
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Link please, to picture of the real thing


After the Aussie's get done 'doing' what they 'do' to sheep, they make boots out of them....
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.........damn.....can't take a girl with feet that big home to Mom.......
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then it's time to get your own place...
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Way to role model small versions of other peep's images

It's direct-linked to the source, not re-hosted....so control is kept with the original site...

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Edited already
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I hate to be the one to say this, but those boots are ugly to the 10th power! I like sheep.....and I'm sure they are warm and comfy, but they look terrible! "My opinion only" not all Americans feel this way, I have seen them out and about....
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but those boots are ugly to the 10th power!

That's why they are called ugg boots (uggly). Either that or 'ugg' refers to the noise most Australians make in place of speech...

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Kylie can make anything look good.