Last but not least: Singing polar bear prevented
For the past two months, Flocke, the polar bear cub living at the Nuremberg Zoo, has been eliciting enthusiastic «Awws» from viewers of numerous press photos. Pop star Patrick Lindner apparently would have preferred to hear a different sound—namely, the sound of cash registers ringing.
For two months now, the polar bear cub Flocke, domiciled at Nuremberg Zoo, has been eliciting an enthusiastic "Jöö" from viewers of numerous press photos. Pop star Patrick Lindner apparently preferred to hear a different sound, that of ringing cash registers. He claimed that his partner at the time, Michael Link, had registered the "Flocke" trademark in April 1994. This would have meant that the singer might have made money from the marketing of the little furball. Linder's lawyer with the beautiful name Alexander Unverzagt told the German communications journal Kontakter that he was working intensively on the Flocke issue. This probably didn't suit the city of Nuremberg, which would prefer to profit from the moderate marketing of the polar bear cub itself. The all-clear now seems to have been given for the city fathers. The website Flocke-eisbaer.de states that Lindner has no longer paid the trademark fees and the protection has therefore lapsed. If this report is confirmed, Lindner will no doubt be furious that he can't make a killing with the snow-white polar bear.
