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What's the point on trademarking something when later you need to pay $80,000 to defend it? The US... smh
by mahouse 12y ago
What's the point on trademarking something when later you need to pay $80,000 to defend it? The US... smh
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- taejo 12y agoRegistering the trademark doesn't make it cheaper to fight, it makes it easier to win.
- danielweber 12y agoSomeone has to pay to do the work of determining if GNOME has a valid complaint. Even if the government were to foot the bill, they would still ask GNOME to put their best case forward, which would involve GNOME hiring lawyers.
- mahouse 12y agoThe government should do it. If they give you the means of registering a trademark, they should at least be able of determining if a claim is valid.
- WoodenChair 12y agoRight because I really want some randomly assigned government bureaucrat making an argument one way or another on my behalf before whoever decides the matter...
- mahouse 12y agoWhat I mean is that the government itself should evaluate the matter and then decide it, all by itself.
- WoodenChair 12y agoWhich is in a sense the same thing - do you trust the government to argue each side of the case and make a decision internally for you? I prefer the court system and an arguer (lawyer) of my choice.
- mahouse 12y agoI don't understand. Why do you think a government agency and a court would take a different decision at a trademark matter?
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoWell you don't have to. You can rock up to the court and say "as the USPTO records show we hold current trademarks for GNOME relating to computing and computing services" and the judge then gets to listen to Groupon's shit about how that's "not relevant" and such and then decides. Just I'm guessing that GNOME don't want to risk that they somehow get an imbecile judge who can't work out which date comes first 1997 or 2014.