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It's not tangential in this case: https://foundation.gnome.org/2014/11/11/gnome-starts-campaign-to-protect-its-trademarks/ https://foundation.gnome.org/2014/11

• shwaj 3y ago
  It is though. Trademark protection doesn’t mean that nobody can use the name for any purpose. Otherwise, “ABC Window Repairs” couldn’t use the name because Microsoft has trademarked “Windows”. In the GroupOn example you cite, it seems like the GNOME foundation has a valid complaint. That doesn’t apply to this case, because the DeepMind system doesn’t have anything to do with desktop UI.
  • JoshTriplett 3y ago
    See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463234 ; the relevant class is "Computer and software products and electrical and scientific products", and these are both pieces of software.
    • shwaj 3y ago
      Thank you.
• pvg 3y ago
  It's tangential to the thing being presented. There's one of these comments in almost every thread about a project with a potentially colliding name and they are repetitive and uninteresting.