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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
- scollet 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_legal_cases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_legal_cases Etc.
- oriolid 6y agoThe classic and almost related one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
- ummonk 6y agoI mean Microsoft seems to be in the right there, given that he deliberately named it that to be a pun on the Microsoft name. He wouldn't have appended Soft to his name when choosing a domain if Microsoft didn't exist.
- perl4ever 6y ago"given that he deliberately named it that to be a pun on the Microsoft name" That seems like a good defense, since it's not the sort of thing people would infer to actually be Microsoft. Not a lawyer, etc., but it seems to me that people continually talk (in this thread and elsewhere) as if trademark was copyright.