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> threatening OpenClaw IIRC it was called Clawdbot when Anthropic complained. IANAL but I believe the holder of a trademark is obligated to defend it against i
by runako 7mo ago
> threatening OpenClaw
IIRC it was called Clawdbot when Anthropic complained. IANAL but I believe the holder of a trademark is obligated to defend it against infringement. Hard to say that Clawdbot was not potentially infringing, given its purpose. It's not clear how much leeway Anthropic had given his initial choice of name.
- linux2647 7mo agoI still think Anthropic should've bought Clawdbot/OpenClaw. Feels like a missed business opportunity to expand your market share by capitalizing on the hype.
- awestroke 7mo agoWhy should they pay money for such crappy software?
- DanielHall 7mo agoOpenClaw is underwhelming, and its founder is basically a hype machine.
- browningstreet 7mo agoThis whole thread is people repeating wrong facts that have been clarified 100x in the previous threads on the same issue. I wonder why conversation can never progress. When a stake goes in the ground, it never ever comes out. FWIW OpenAI didn't buy OpenClaw.
- hirako2000 7mo agoAnd Nvidia didn't buy Groq.
- browningstreet 7mo agoWhen Peter gets tired of having a boss again, OpenAI will have zero OpenClaw.
- mellosouls 7mo ago"now at OpenAI" were my original words - they did the equivalent of an acqui-hire and "protected" OpenClaw in a foundation. In the context of the seemingly aggressive machinations of Anthropic your hair-splitting without clarifying beyond "OpenAI didn't buy OpenClaw" seems itself misleading and rather counter to helping conversations progress.
- Jgrubb 7mo agoDoes your employer use Salesforce? Crappy software is practically the only software that anybody really pays for.
- segmondy 7mo agoso they own the trademark to Clawd? Or is it suppose to be Claude?
- runako 7mo agoPTO has a page on this: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion The example in question is a Trademark for "T. Markey" and the conflicting mark is listed as "Tee Marqee". Reasonableness is a thing here. Every person in this thread knows why it was called Clawdbot and not (say) Peterbot or cronbot. That we all know that reason is the problem. Edit, the USPTO does in fact make this blindingly easy to find: https://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement https://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement "How do I know whether I'm infringing?" --> "The key factors considered in most cases are the degree of similarity between the marks at issue and whether the parties' goods and/or services are sufficiently related that consumers are likely to assume (mistakenly) that they come from a common source."
- TiredOfLife 7mo agoAnd what relation does Anthropic or Claude have woth the name Clawdbot
- runako 7mo agoIt could reasonably cause confusion in the marketplace. Again, IANAL. If you wanted to find out the actual legal arguments, you could release and promote software for white-collar workers called Mycrosoft Offyce and I am sure you will get official legal answers from Microsoft's counsel.
- TiredOfLife 7mo agoHow? Two completely different names.
- runako 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449751