A Sex Rod Story That Doesn’t Involve Fred Smoot
Sometimes, in stories this good, it’s best to skip the setup jokes and cut right to the meat: The Boston Red Sox have won a trademark infringement case against a man who wanted to slap the phrase “Sex Rod,” in Boston’s Olde English font, on everything from lingerie to infant’s clothing.
This “brilliant parody” (I put it in scare quotes to indicate not that anyone said it, but that it’s not really a brilliant parody) is unsurprisingly the work of a New Yorker, one Brad Francis Sherman, who attempted to trademark the logo in July of 2005. You might ask yourself, what does a “self-proclaimed humorist” know about intellectual copyright law? The answer is, slightly less than he knows about being clever. (Sex rod sex rod you’re my sex rod and baby you can turn me on, after the jump.)
