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Is that really silly? Coming up with a project name in an unrelated project in the technology space? That's akin to Ajax Detergent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Is that really silly? Coming up with a project name in an unrelated project in the technology space? That's akin to Ajax Detergent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(cleaning_product) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(cleaning_product)) wanting all jQuery wiped off because there is a $.ajax() function in jQuery. Look, it even has a $! Chaching with every occurrence!

overgard 11y ago
It's not an unrelated technology space! Kik is a messaging platform. It's EASILY conceivable that they might want to publish a nodejs API. It's also easily conceivable someone looking to interact with their platform would type npm install kik. They're entirely in their rights to see this as stepping on their turf.
- jhall1468 11y ago
  That. Is. Not. How. Trademarks. Work. A trademark gives you protection of a mark within a specific industry. "Software" is not a specific industry. They do not get wholesale ownership of the term. And if you blindly install a module, expecting it to be some official release without looking it up, you're an idiot.
  - johannes1234321 11y ago
    See class 9 of the Nice categories. If you claim a trademark For class 9 it includes "all computer programs and software regardless of recording media or means of dissemination, that is, software recorded on magnetic media or downloaded from a remote computer network." Also mind the way this practically works: A company will try to register a mark in as many categories as possible.
    - jhall1468 11y ago
      That's just incorrect. NICE Class 9 is far more extensive than that: "Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; compact discs, DVDs and other digital recording media; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment, computers; computer software; fire-extinguishing apparatus." Computers programs are a part of 090373 which has a breakdown of ~100 subcategories. There are 45 Nice classes. Being in the same top-level class is not confusingly similar. Unless you think Kik Marine Compasses and Kik Instant Messenger might be confusingly similar.

overgard 11y ago

It's not an unrelated technology space! Kik is a messaging platform. It's EASILY conceivable that they might want to publish a nodejs API. It's also easily conceivable someone looking to interact with their platform would type npm install kik. They're entirely in their rights to see this as stepping on their turf.

jhall1468 11y ago
That. Is. Not. How. Trademarks. Work. A trademark gives you protection of a mark within a specific industry. "Software" is not a specific industry. They do not get wholesale ownership of the term. And if you blindly install a module, expecting it to be some official release without looking it up, you're an idiot.
- johannes1234321 11y ago
  See class 9 of the Nice categories. If you claim a trademark For class 9 it includes "all computer programs and software regardless of recording media or means of dissemination, that is, software recorded on magnetic media or downloaded from a remote computer network." Also mind the way this practically works: A company will try to register a mark in as many categories as possible.
  - jhall1468 11y ago
    That's just incorrect. NICE Class 9 is far more extensive than that: "Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; compact discs, DVDs and other digital recording media; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment, computers; computer software; fire-extinguishing apparatus." Computers programs are a part of 090373 which has a breakdown of ~100 subcategories. There are 45 Nice classes. Being in the same top-level class is not confusingly similar. Unless you think Kik Marine Compasses and Kik Instant Messenger might be confusingly similar.