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Expect a letter from a lawyer representing DC Comics demanding you to rename your product. An acquaintance of mine also launched a product (entirely unrelated t
by DrJokepu 14y ago
Expect a letter from a lawyer representing DC Comics demanding you to rename your product. An acquaintance of mine also launched a product (entirely unrelated to comics and toys) with the same name recently and was asked by DC Comics to change the name.
- random42 14y agoI am curious, on what basis he was asked to change the name? As per my understand, It is certainly not a trademark infringement, if not belonging to the same business domain.
- coderholic 14y agoI think he misread it as Batman
- DrJokepu 14y agoObviously their point was that Bateman was too close to Batman. Not being a trademarks expert, I can't comment on whether it was a trademark infringement or not, but that is besides the point. Do you want to spend time and money litigating with DC Comics?
- irahul 14y ago> Obviously their point was that Bateman was too close to Batman. Their point is moot. DC comics will have to go after people who own 'Patrick Bateman'. This isn't infringement(nobody is going to confuse a trading software named Bateman with a book/movie character); even if it were, the owners of 'Patrick Bateman' and not DC comics can claim infringement. At most, he will have to remove the image of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, but I doubt it will come to it. Also, batman.js is in business, and DC comics didn't go after them. At what grounds did they went after your friend? Naming your software batman or superman isn't infringing DC's trademarks.
- jxf 14y agoI think you misread the repo name as "Batman", but it's "Bateman", as in, Patrick Bateman, the character in American Psycho.
- DrJokepu 14y agoI didn't misread the repo name.
- noname123 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bateman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bateman