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books UPDATED: The US Patent and Trademark Office is ready to hand over an exclusive trademark for "Dragon Slayer" for fantasy novels Cory Doctorow
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law For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs — and now there's rather a lot of that Cory Doctorow
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