Actually it seems that Redis Labs wouldn't be able to trademark "Redis" in this sense (at least without Antirez's permission) as they themselves are making mone

Actually it seems that Redis Labs wouldn't be able to trademark "Redis" in this sense (at least without Antirez's permission) as they themselves are making money on a fork of Redis called "Redis^e" or something like that. Granted Antirez works for them now -- but this is downright confusing.