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Curiously, Anthropic.com was launched in 2021, but a small custom software shop in Arizona around since the mid-late 90s had registered and been using Anthropic
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
Curiously, Anthropic.com was launched in 2021, but a small custom software shop in Arizona around since the mid-late 90s had registered and been using Anthropic.ai in 2020 for a couple projects.
How does that name collision work?
- nr2x 4y ago“Hi we’re here to save humanity, and we’re stealing your name! We have a ton of lawyers, buckets of cash from Google to hire more lawyers, and if you don’t like it, you’re fucked. Now please enjoy being saved by us.”
- dan-robertson 4y agoMaybe they bought the domain name for a mutually agreeable price?
- jjtheblunt 4y agoIt's the trademark that matters i thought (possibly naively), since anthropic.ai was registered in 2020 for a product built in 2019, it seems, and the Anthropic spin off from OpenAI was formed in 2021, seems to have purchased a squatted domain name of anthropic.com then. Kind of unsure how it all works.
- dan-robertson 4y agoWell you can also buy a trademark, right? Though I think different companies are allowed the same trademarks if the things being trademarked aren’t confusable