Merchandising

T-shirt designers sometimes seem embroiled in a race to the bottom of the offensiveness barrel. However, one purveyor gives us hope with its cute new shirt for girls who get As in math. ThinkGeek is offering its "No, I Will Not Do Your Math Babydoll" in women's and girl's sizes.

The revolution will be trademarked and put on T-shirts if an increasing number of entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to profit from the Occupy demonstrations.

All of the St. Louis Cardinals were donning the official grey championship T-shirts moments after they won the World Series. But what about the merchandise for the losers, the Texas Rangers?

Last month, Urban Outfitters drew threats of legal action from the Navajo Nation for advertising the "Navajo Hipster Panty." To avoid that potential liability, Urban Outfitters recently changed the names of all 21 of the products it had been calling "Navajo." But fellow retailer Forever 21 doesn't seem to share Urban Outfitters' concern. While a search for "Navajo" on its website turns up no results, a little digging reveals at least a half-dozen items that have the Navajo trademark in the title.

An immigration activist is calling it a victory after convincing online retailer CafePress to remove "racist" merchandise. Designed to look like an actual permit to "hunt illegal aliens," immigration rights activist Victor Hoelscher, along with hundreds of others, petitioned CafePress to get the items removed.

President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, Obama for America, sued a Washington-based promotional company for selling what it alleged was unauthorized merchandise.

Inside KISS frontman Gene Simmons' mansion, it's hard to figure out where to start. The merchandise almost amounts to sensory overload. "My favorite piece of merchandising is me," Simmons said while giving a tour to Yahoo Finance of his home office.

Looks like the couple who attempted to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" earlier this week aren't the only people trying to make a buck off of the protests. An Atlanta man is trying to get his own related trademark: The words "occupy this" with an arrow pointed down.

It was only a matter of time before opportunists started to look for ways to cash in on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now both the 99 percent and the 1 percent are trying to claim 100 percent of the movement. 

Major League Baseball is in St. Louis, telling Cardinal fans to watch out for counterfeit merchandise. But why should fans even care if a sale has baseball's stamp of approval?