Caylee Anthony Watch: Nancy Grace To Trademark "Tot Mom" Phrase

CNN personality Nancy Grave has filed to trademark the expression "Tot Mom" as a reference to Casey Anthony, mother of the murdered Caylee Anthony. "Nancy originated the phrase," says a spokesperson for the network. "It is her unique intellectual property. Grace's incessant, endless, grating repetition of the phrase, coupled with her nasal, shrewish, high-pitched whine, has created a distinctive and original phraseology which she is well within her rights to retain and develop as a brand. "

By repeating "Tot Mom" in referring to the Caylee Anthony case as often as every 4 seconds within a 42 minute time period, 5 nights a week, twice every night, Grace has laid the groundwork for the ownership and monetization of a verbal trademark. In-house focus groups have shown because of the jackhammer-like pounding she is inflicting on her viewers with what is otherwise a trite, banal expression, Nancy can and should take steps to protect her intellectual property rights. "By trademarking the phrase, Grace is in line to collect royalaties for usage of the phrase by others, although some observers doubt that possibility. "I wouldn't touch that "Tot Mom" thing with a ten-foot pole," a source said. "It's shorthand for 'I'm a nasty, stupid, rodent- faced idiot with a tv show,' if you ask me. She can have it."