Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo

and here is the opposite effect, the new windows 8 logo:<p><a href="http://i50.tinypic.com/15oidfb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i50.tinypic.com/15oidfb.jpg</a><p>A clean, simple, elegant logo, completely ruined by the honking TM <i>and</i> (R) injected by the lawyers. The bizarre presence of <i>two</i> separate legalese-related sigils on a single logo makes it impossible to miss. Also makes it clear who is running the place.

I find it completely hilarious that Marissa is not dogfooding. I know that someone else said this earlier in the thread, but why is this on Instagram and not flickr? Come on, at least use your own damn product.<p>The correct answer to the objection of "but Instagram is better right now" is "I'm going to revitalize this product by using it for my own photos and commentary, even if it sucks right now."<p>You don't want <i>the CEO</i> of a company giving mindshare to a competitor!

Seeing all of the (TM)s and (R)s has always annoyed me. When I look at it I always feel an undercurrent that it represents everything stereotypically oppressive about a corporation.<p>Is there some legal reason for placing them up there (requirement to protect the trademark in this way, a CYA, or some other reason), or are they just up there for show?

On side note, she uses Instagram instead of Flickr. Looks like Flickr needs to step up. Would be fun to see if she says to Flickr team, "I won't use your app unless you improve it"

Is there a reason this page is completely devoid of any interactivity? I wanted to view further pictures she might have shared, but clicking her name just brings up pointless statistics (number of photos and followers). Same deal with the comment section. It's like someone pulled a copy of the page and removed all the hyperlinks.

Her informal management style and potential empowerment of the new 'Yahoo!s' is impressive. I can't think of a setup where a new hire would go around the campus taking off all the Rs without her encouragement.

Where can I buy ALL of these for Referly?

Now ditch the exclamation point so you don't have to say "Yahoo!s."

Copyright and trademark are just tools to be used by those who can. Case in point --- Apple uses any music they want in their TV commercials and never pays to license it. Apparently, in their opinion, the artist deserves nothing more than the opportunity to benefit from increased exposure. I suppose that's why they pick more obscure music (CSS).<p>Another interesting point is that, for some time now, movie distributors have used the FBI seal without licensing it. But that seal sure makes the video piracy warning look official! <a href="http://www.sonnyboo.com/images/tips/FBI.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.sonnyboo.com/images/tips/FBI.jpg</a>

A subtle change that means a lot.

I judge a CEO by what he or she instagrams about the company and how the employees contribute their 2 cents to the company logo.<p>Ok, excuse the sarcasm. But I don't see what this tells us about Yahoo! or Meyers performance as a CEO. I'd like to hear more about how she's managing Yahoo!, augmenting its products and services, and above all how that this performance translates to better earnings.

Interesting for me is the regional Yahoo (au.yahoo.com) is destined to receive zero benefit from Marissa's reign.<p>One thing I like about Google is they do have regional variants, but they're all pretty much the same.<p>Yahoo varies WIDELY with all the weird partnership deals they have struck with local companies over the years.

awesome, next up the "!"

There is still one on the front page: <a href="http://f.cl.ly/items/0z0V110Z0g2b1U0o2A2M/r.png" rel="nofollow">http://f.cl.ly/items/0z0V110Z0g2b1U0o2A2M/r.png</a>

Excellent! I'd love to see more companies follow suit. I have a bunch of 'logowear' and it annoys me greatly when a company puts TM or R after its logo on shirts, hats, jackets, etc. It seems absurd to me to need to protect their mark so vigorously on clothing when it's a tech company -- I don't mind seeing TM/R in advertisements, on their website, etc. but don't place it on clothing!

Seriously, I'm tired of seeing her name in the press for no valuable reasons: no assigned parking, iphone for all employee, open space, now the (r) removed from the logo. Come on all of these changes are ok but not worth all the press.<p>Let me know when she actually change the group strategy or announces new products !

It's so confusing to have a ceo mention a company related matter on it's personal space on a rival service.

It wasn't the "(R)" that needed removing, it was the "!".

Good to see that there is real structural change afoot at Yahoo. &#60;/sarcasm&#62;