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It might be hard to defend that as a unique enough trademark. Not impossible if you can afford the sort of lawyers that get words like “windows” and “apple” pro
by dspillett 3y ago
It might be hard to defend that as a unique enough trademark. Not impossible if you can afford the sort of lawyers that get words like “windows” and “apple” protected, but not easy. -zilla was a fairly common suffix for various things including, but not limited to, software when the company took on the name. I expect the majority of people hearing the name filezilla will think of Gozilla far ahead of Mozilla and assume the name comes from there rather than implying a link to the company (a lot of non-techies might not even know/care that Firefox comes from a company call Mozilla) so the chance of meaningful conclusion would take quite some arguing for.
Protections that would apply to -zilla as you suggest could be used for a lot else by other corporates, so be careful what you wish for there.