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And yet despite it having no legs, here it is doing real damage to real people trying to sell real products they designed, while spending their real resources t
by bittermang 12y ago
And yet despite it having no legs, here it is doing real damage to real people trying to sell real products they designed, while spending their real resources to fight this obviously toothless claim in the courts.
This is one of the many reasons why the US legal system is broken, and backwards.
- snowwrestler 12y agoIt didn't have to cause any harm; Zazzle did not have to react the way it did. Yeah, maybe their lawyers advised Zazzle "not to risk it" and take down all the pi products. That is what lawyers are paid to do, but that doesn't make it the right business decision. Lawsuit are not the only risk; by acting so foolishly, Zazzle pissed off a bunch of customers and generated a ton of bad press for themselves.
- rayiner 12y agoThere's no actual claim that anybody is spending any money to fight in any courts. Just a nastygram to a website that took down the products proactively. Every western country has trademark laws, and you could send a similar letter in any of them.
- ScottBurson 12y agoIt has already caused people to do work they otherwise wouldn't have had to. And what are the odds that the trademark holder will give up without litigation? But I agree that this isn't specific to the US.