Can Yahoo trademark Yahoo

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Yahoo -v- Yahoo! in Print...
However on Domain names it HAS to be Yahoo



A crude or brutish person. See Synonyms at boor.


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[From Yahoo, member of a race of brutes in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.]
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yahoo·ism n.

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\Ya"hoo\, n. 1. One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's ``Gulliver's Travels.'' See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

2. Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

3. A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn. [U. S.]
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[OSFan]

Yahoo! have trademarked Yahoo and successfully sued people for using it.

Some of the complaints made by Yahoo! are silly though, as Yahoo! Inc. as far as I am aware just deal in the internet areas. So using the Yahoo word for other products/services should not be infringement, although Yahoo! Inc. would like to think different.