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Don't forget he filed a trademark for chili crunch sauce (which has been used in several Asian cuisines for literally centuries) and sued to stop smaller restau
by paxys 2y ago
Don't forget he filed a trademark for chili crunch sauce (which has been used in several Asian cuisines for literally centuries) and sued to stop smaller restaurants and businesses from selling it, and only backed down when there was public outcry.
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- fsckboy 2y agotrademark refers to the name a product is sold as, not what the product is, and also has a local jurisdiction. What they do in Asia has nothing to do with trademarks in the US, and since not very much of Asia has spoken English for literally hundreds of years, I doubt they were calling it chili crunch sauce. I'm not defending Chang nor trademarks, just pointing out how they work legally and the flaws in the argument you're making. Remember, people called windows "windows", but they didn't sell products called Windows till Microsoft started and trademarked it.
- shaklee3 2y agoI don't get your point. There are many other companies using the name chili crunch. He was not the first. But he tried to trademark it to stop all the others.
- fsckboy 2y agothat he was not the first using that name in the US is a very good argument against a trademark in the US now that you've said that, but this is the first time that was said, is the point I was making