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Genuine question: can you just call your alternative to product x "Open-x"?
by nope1000 2y ago
Genuine question: can you just call your alternative to product x "Open-x"?
- iuiz 2y agoI bet that this will result in a letter from a lawyer, if this gets any traction.
- gtirloni 2y agoUsually, no. If they have a registered trademark, you definitely can't.
- jampekka 2y agoDepends on how rich and powerful you are.
- mihaic 2y agoIronically, I think having a Twitter clone be called Open-X might fly legally, since that's generic enough, but pretty much any other instance where the trademarked name is very specific, like Open-Google or Open-Facebook would be surely easy to be removed by a judge. It's just that it takes a while for this process to happen, and until there's a legal injunction you can still use the name.