Dervaes Family "Urban Homestead" Trademark Debacle

As much as they irrigate, I can't imagine what their water bill must be!    It's probably their largest expense.

Yes.  In L.A. you pay twice for the water.  First, you pay x amount per 100cf, then you pay y amount for "sewage".  As I recall, it used to cost me more to dispose of it than it did to get it.  They don't care if you drink it, irrigate with it, or just let it run down the sink.  The sewage fee is based on 100% of the water you received.

Yep, I remember paying a $400 water/sewer bill one month in Van Nuys    And that was over ten years ago... 

I'm trademarking the letter E. It appears repeatedly in my name and I use it in virtually all of my sentences.

I'm charging a royalty for using it.

Seriously, ideas are the last thing we should try to make private property. An idea is one of the things we can exchange most profitably.

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples,
then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas."
- George Bernard Shaw