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Here's a simple rule: Don't use someone-else's trademark as the fist word of your product name. The first word is typically used to imply endorsement or offici

by ig1 15y ago

Here's a simple rule: Don't use someone-else's trademark as the fist word of your product name. The first word is typically used to imply endorsement or officialness. So for example Microsoft X or Google Y. If you build a product based on a third party service, you can generally use the trademark in your name for example "Bob's invites to Google+", as long as it's clear it's not an officially produced or endorsed product.

robryan 15y ago
With Google though you would ideally want to avoid it altogether, although in this case that wouldn't really be possible. A lot of Google logos have specific terms of use, most of which include that they can't be modified in any way which I thinking might have resulted in the ban in this case.