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Why were people so up in arms over King's attempt to trademark "Candy", but suddenly it's OK to trademark "Paper"?!?
by MrWhargarbl 13y ago
Why were people so up in arms over King's attempt to trademark "Candy", but suddenly it's OK to trademark "Paper"?!?
- sp332 13y agoKing used their trademarks to attack smaller players. FiftyThree is using theirs to defend against a larger player. Also, King has trademarked "Candy" across a lot of areas where they don't even have products. The application for "Paper" seems more specific.
- jeremygeros 13y agoFiftyThree also sort of did the same thing to a smaller player as well http://figure53.com/notes/2014-02-04-david-and-goliath/ http://figure53.com/notes/2014-02-04-david-and-goliath/
- hoopism 13y agoThere's a link on HN but it didn't do very well... odd. Upvote it back on the mainpage... looks like a bad title buried it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7179241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7179241
- rebel 13y agoI agree with you wholeheartedly. If you don't want someone else to use your product name, don't use one of the most common English nouns in the dictionary.
- sejje 13y agoPut simply: people side with the little guy.