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Me too! The situation isn't helped by the registration of "Duck Tape" as a trademark for a specific brand of tape -- but that appears not to have happened until
by gnfargbl 3y ago
Me too! The situation isn't helped by the registration of "Duck Tape" as a trademark for a specific brand of tape -- but that appears not to have happened until 1981, well after both names were in common use: https://trademarks.justia.com/733/00/duck-73300816.html https://trademarks.justia.com/733/00/duck-73300816.html
- p-e-w 3y agoWhat an epic failure by the trademark office. That's as if a company had tried to trademark "Hammer" as a brand name for hammers, and the trademark office just said "Yeah, sure!"
- hulitu 3y agoYou should check Windows. (Total Commander)
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoOr like "Apple" as a brand name for... nevermind
- p-e-w 3y agoThat's different. Apple as a trademark for a computer (or for a record company) is fine. Apple as a trademark for apples... not so.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoJust that the "difference" stops when they now sue any grocery related company having anything like an apple in their logos..
- p-e-w 3y agoAnyone can sue anyone else over anything. If those grocery companies actually fought them in court instead of caving in, Apple would get their ass handed to them.
- lesuorac 3y agoI welcome you to try sueing your neighbor for murdering you. Courts do not accept all lawsuits.
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoNot a great example. After being found innocent in criminal court of murdering his wife, OJ Simpson was famously sued by her family and lost in civil court.
- jcynix 3y agoApple did complain about this logo too, for a bicycle route through Germany's second largest apple growing region: https://apfelroute.nrw/ https://apfelroute.nrw/
- pmarreck 3y agoI used to be mad about this sort of thing too, until I learned that things are incentivized in such a way that encourages companies to at least make a nominal defense of their trademarks in order to maintain an edge in court for actual less-defensible violations of the trademark
- jcynix 3y agoNot to forget "Mail" for an email program. Made searching so much easier ... Not. And never mind the dog named dog (a long time ago, some IEEE journal had a great cartoon where someone painted "house" on their house, "car" on their car, ... you get it. The cartoon illustrated an article about good and bad names for systems.
- jareklupinski 3y agoever since i read the story about the "Max Headroom" guys about how they picked their name (because it was written at the entrance of every parking garage) i think the best way of naming a company is to make it something that is said hundreds of times by people every day "an apple a day" etc... wonder if I can name my comapny "the The company" or "the corporation of Is" haha
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIf Max had been killed by a train, he would have taken the name, "Mind the Gap" or perhaps just the very appropriate, "Mind Gap".
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago> wonder if I can name my comapny [sic] "the The company" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaCie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaCie
- jagged-chisel 3y agoThey don’t check trademarks like they (are supposed to) do patents. You want a registration? Here you go. Now someone has to take it to court to see if it stands up.
- lelanthran 3y agoSome countries do patents the same way. They're called non-examining patent offices.