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Woman sues over Boston Legal phrase

by Adam Finley, posted Mar 14th 2006 11:33AM

According to Page Six,  a woman in New York has sued Disney and ABC for using the phrase "What's your problem?" in their ads for Boston Legal. The woman, Janet Arnold, has a public access cable show called What's Your Problem and has supposedly trademarked the name (though when she registered the name is not mentioned). Meanwhile, my plan to become wealthy by trademarking the word "the" seems to have been an utter failure. At any rate, it's clear that the only way Disney and ABC are going to avoid any legal entanglements is to change the catchphrase to "What's your problem? (the previous phrase is a registered trademark of Janet Arnold)." Yeah, that'll be sweeping the nation any day now.

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Jonna

I love BL, but after the 14 March episode, which was purely political, I refuse to watch anymore. I like to be entertained not watch political agenda

March 15 2006 at 8:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

Reminds me of Donald Trump trying to trademark "You're fired" a few years ago.

All that legal effort was money well spent, as NBC ended up selling literally tens of shirts with the slogan on them.

March 14 2006 at 8:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Duane

Actually she'd like them to change it to "What's your problem? (the previous phrase is a registered trademark of Janet Arnold - please visit her website at blahblahblah.com and support her advertisers)."

Remember, there's no point in saying anything these days unless it includes a plug for your website. All googlejuice is good googlejuice. :)

March 14 2006 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lampbane

BBC already has a show with that name:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/wyp/

March 14 2006 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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