The Oxford English Dictionary recognizes “ollie” as a skateboarding move, but now Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, who invented the move as a teenager in 1976, and got around to registering a trademark in 2002, claims exclusive use of the term, and is suing Disney, Sega, and numerous other defendants $20 million for their use of the word. (Patrick Danner, “If you use the ‘ollie,’ pay Ollie”, Miami Herald, Dec. 7).
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Sports IP: rights in “ollie”. No, the word.
The oddly spelled skateboarding kick-move named “ollie,” which according to my fave resource is an “aerial skateboard trick” that is the basis for most other tricks has, interestingly enough, generated s…