Yangzi Evening News (Reporter Xu Jing) Recently, the company's investigation showed that the trademark "Turn off the lights and eat noodles" has been registered by many companies. The latest registered company is Dongfang Fortune, and the international classification involves 36 categories of financial property management. The current trademark status is "registered". application".
It is reported that turning off the lights and eating noodles expresses the mood of investors after the failure of stock investment.
In fact, the origin of the term "turn off the lights and eat noodles" originated from a post in the Oriental Fortune Stock Bar.
On December 7, 2011, the "black swan" incident of Chongqing Beer broke out, triggering a continuous drop, and the stock price fell sharply.
On December 15, on the night when Chongqing Beer experienced the sixth consecutive "one" drop, a netizen from the Oriental Fortune Internet Bar published a post entitled "Eat and Cry" in Chongqing Beer Bar. The content is very simple, only a short sentence - "I came home today and cooked some noodles to eat. I cried while eating noodles. Tears fell into the bowl, and the lights were not turned on."
After the post was published, it quickly resonated among shareholders and netizens.
Since then, the phrase "turn off the lights and eat noodles" has been widely quoted.
People in the legal profession believe that the premise of registering a trademark for a hot word on the Internet is that it must abide by the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law, and must not violate public order and good customs or damage public interests.
Although there are not many hot words on the Internet suitable for registration as trademarks, once the registration is successful, the trademark may bring rich returns to the registrant, which is why many enterprises and individuals are keen to register trademarks with hot words on the Internet.