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You liken it to a patent but it is more similar to a trademark. I would think most everyone agrees trademarks are very good things in practice 99.9% of the time
by invisible 16y ago
You liken it to a patent but it is more similar to a trademark. I would think most everyone agrees trademarks are very good things in practice 99.9% of the time.
- chc 16y agoThat's because if you don't use your trademark, you lose it. There's no equivalent to "Oh, I used the name in a little-known paper I wrote and now I can sue you." If nobody knows about your trademark, you probably don't own it.
- protomyth 16y agoTechnically it isn't the lack of use that will kill a trademark, it is the lack of defense or people using it as a generic term. The need to defend actually causes most of the trouble with trademarks since you really need to be a little more agressive than you would like.