So how do you propose to get from here to a sitaution in which government stays out of your private life completely?
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As well, where do you draw the line between private and public? The two are so intertwined that it's all but impossible to separate one completely from the other.
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Once upon a time, a fried-chicken joint in Kentucky applied for a Service Mark ("Ford has a better idea" "Coke's the real thing") from the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks. Several groups objected the the issuance of the service mark and a notice was placed in the Federal Register regarding the form and times for commentary.
In my view, the service mark "Jack's Fried Chicken, where a breast in the mouth is as good as a thigh in the hand" would have been a self-correcting problem. Either Jack would have made a fortune or somebody would have burnt his place to the ground.
But noooo! We had to have notices in the Federal Register, meetings hearings, documents in triplicates, writs by the wagon full, twelve lawyers singing, notaries public without number.
Oh well.