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Thank you for your work on ublock origin! I mean it, it's reflecting an important part and protecting a lot of internet users. I wanted to ask whether you trie

Thank you for your work on ublock origin! I mean it, it's reflecting an important part and protecting a lot of internet users. I wanted to ask whether you tried to go against the uBlock maintainer through legal actions? DMCA takedown comes to mind as well as registering the uBlock trademark and force him to change the name...or revoking rights to him specifically for new updates/changes of the codebase. uBlock meanwhile is just as scammy as AdBlock and AdBlock Plus, which both are owned by eyeo GmbH (and their acceptable ads program which they abuse to force websites to enter their program, while getting 30% of ad revenue for the "allowance"). And I would hate to see uBlock pulling uB0 through the mud with its name.

ajayyy 6y ago
BetaFish now owns the trademark for "uBlock"
- cookiengineer 6y ago
  > BetaFish now owns the trademark for "uBlock" The international patents and trademarks database doesn't confirm this, because the trademark application of Betafish was cancelled. The only thing that's actually registered is the uBlock "graphical trademark" (don't know the US term for it) so it's not the word itself that's registered, but only the combination of word and picture with its exact form that's protected. This graphical trademark #017822487 is registered by uBlock, LLC, 30309, Atlanta, US and it was registered on 19.02.2018 - almost 4 years later. So, technically, @gorhill could still register the term "uBlock" as a trademark and probably win a case against uBlock, LLC because their trademark is bound with its graphical representation and not the word itself. (Also, I am not a lawyer - because I heard people assume this all the time on the internet for whatever reason.)