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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.)