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A little off topic, but how is it possible that a tech startup named itself “Wyze” and didn’t get sued by Google over the “Waze” trademark? In some accents it s
by t8sr 3y ago
A little off topic, but how is it possible that a tech startup named itself “Wyze” and didn’t get sued by Google over the “Waze” trademark? In some accents it sounds exactly the same, and they’re sort of in an adjacent product space.
- sqlacid 3y agoAm I the only one that saw Wyze and thought Wyse? Guess I'm old.
- t8sr 3y agoRight, that’s another one. I get that the trademark space is pretty dense, but still - trademarks exist to stop consumers getting confused, and this naming really is confusing? Waze could come out with a line of dash cams, and then you'd have Waze cams and Wyze cams.
- vel0city 3y agoTrademarks are about confusing names in a similar product market. Just having a similar-ish sounding name doesn't mean it violates the trademark. Self-driving cars are pretty different market to home security cameras.
- t8sr 3y agoYou're thinking of Waymo :) Waze is a crowdsourced traffic & maps thing. It's vaguely, if you squint, adjacent. I don't think it would be completely crazy, for example, for Waze to introduce a line of dash cams.