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Why should the laws be ridiculed? They prevent companies from promoting their trade marks as generic terms and then claiming a monopoly on them - rather like th
by zb 15y ago
Why should the laws be ridiculed? They prevent companies from promoting their trade marks as generic terms and then claiming a monopoly on them - rather like the old days when people would sneak patented technologies into IEEE standards and the like and then demand royalties from everyone who implemented them.
If the cost to society of preventing this is limited to one mildly absurdist press release per company, it seems like a pretty good law.
- tikhonj 15y agoMy point wasn't so much that the law should be ridiculed as if something is to be ridiculed, it should probably be the law rather than the company. In practice, I agree with you: I actually think trademark law is completely reasonable--it's just that the most reasonable course of action involves companies doing things which can appear silly. And when people see companies doing silly things, they almost inevitably want to ridicule them, usually with good reason.