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Ignorering the questionable legality of this entire thing, which might fall out in favor of it being a legal activity. Calling the project OpenViktor is as dumb

Ignorering the questionable legality of this entire thing, which might fall out in favor of it being a legal activity. Calling the project OpenViktor is as dumb as committing secrets to GitHub. For the love of reason call it something else.

croes 7mo ago
Is the name Victor trademarkable?
- klustregrif 7mo ago
  Is office? There is no doubt that if this goes to court you are only hurting your own chances at any reasonable defense by deciding on mirroring the naming like that. And for what? Saying you created an opensource product with no tie to their branding would convey the same effect.
  - pessimizer 7mo ago
    Yes, there's no way that somebody could have a product called OpenOffice that is literally an Open Source version of Office. Impossible. The legal purpose of trademarks is to serve the same purpose as a signature: in order that one company cannot do business pretending to be another company without showing a clear intention to defraud - an intention made clear by the attempt to fake a signature, or imitate a mark. It is not to own words or sounds. It is a mark that you trade under. This is a product that is openly hostile to the other product, and is adding a well-established prefix to indicate the reason for that hostility.
- layer8 7mo ago
  Sure it is: https://uspto.report/TM/78326416/ https://uspto.report/TM/78326416/ https://uspto.report/TM/74713937/ https://uspto.report/TM/74713937/ https://uspto.report/TM/74619284/ https://uspto.report/TM/74619284/ https://uspto.report/TM/87438245/ https://uspto.report/TM/87438245/ https://uspto.report/TM/77936273/ https://uspto.report/TM/77936273/ https://uspto.report/TM/86747705/ https://uspto.report/TM/86747705/ https://uspto.report/TM/78638776/ https://uspto.report/TM/78638776/ https://uspto.report/TM/73359604/ https://uspto.report/TM/73359604/ https://uspto.report/TM/98066821/ https://uspto.report/TM/98066821/ https://uspto.report/TM/97979922/ https://uspto.report/TM/97979922/ …and many more.

croes 7mo ago

Is the name Victor trademarkable?

klustregrif 7mo ago
Is office? There is no doubt that if this goes to court you are only hurting your own chances at any reasonable defense by deciding on mirroring the naming like that. And for what? Saying you created an opensource product with no tie to their branding would convey the same effect.
- pessimizer 7mo ago
  Yes, there's no way that somebody could have a product called OpenOffice that is literally an Open Source version of Office. Impossible. The legal purpose of trademarks is to serve the same purpose as a signature: in order that one company cannot do business pretending to be another company without showing a clear intention to defraud - an intention made clear by the attempt to fake a signature, or imitate a mark. It is not to own words or sounds. It is a mark that you trade under. This is a product that is openly hostile to the other product, and is adding a well-established prefix to indicate the reason for that hostility.
layer8 7mo ago
Sure it is: https://uspto.report/TM/78326416/ https://uspto.report/TM/78326416/ https://uspto.report/TM/74713937/ https://uspto.report/TM/74713937/ https://uspto.report/TM/74619284/ https://uspto.report/TM/74619284/ https://uspto.report/TM/87438245/ https://uspto.report/TM/87438245/ https://uspto.report/TM/77936273/ https://uspto.report/TM/77936273/ https://uspto.report/TM/86747705/ https://uspto.report/TM/86747705/ https://uspto.report/TM/78638776/ https://uspto.report/TM/78638776/ https://uspto.report/TM/73359604/ https://uspto.report/TM/73359604/ https://uspto.report/TM/98066821/ https://uspto.report/TM/98066821/ https://uspto.report/TM/97979922/ https://uspto.report/TM/97979922/ …and many more.