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Runs into in the sense that the first website people will type when trying to access the website of Google's Alphabet is surely alphabet.com.
Why would people be accessing the proposed alphabet.com? There's not going to be any consumer related stuff there. In fact, I'd be surprised if abc.xyz will change much.
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Yes, and UPS has trademarked brown (and T-mobile has purple). Remember that trademarks are limited to certain categories. If you're not competing with UPS, you can use brown etc.
I know how trademark works (I have a registered tm myself), but am suggesting that it change. To my mind trademarking 'brown' is so thoroughly uncreative. A trademark should be more than a common English word.
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I know how trademark works (I have a registered tm myself), but am suggesting that it change. To my mind trademarking 'brown' is so thoroughly uncreative. A trademark should be more than a common English word.
Trademark isn't intended to be about creativity (that's copyright), trademark is intended to be about preventing commercial confusion.
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Why would people be accessing the proposed alphabet.com? There's not going to be any consumer related stuff there. In fact, I'd be surprised if abc.xyz will change much.
Yes, I know that. But I can see where the "problem" resides, even if it's not actually a problem at all :)
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Trademark isn't intended to be about creativity (that's copyright), trademark is intended to be about preventing commercial confusion.
The "Pixels" thing clearly shows that trademarking common English words is ripe for confusion. A little creativity would go a long way towards reducing confusion.