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Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Post by clarkmoody »

mattmaroon wrote: post #27
putlake wrote: post #9

The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

...and then what happened?

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Post by xnx »

olivia-banks wrote: post #22
ed wrote: post #20

A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?

The only context I've heard about it has been when the Mac Mini clusters associated with it were brought up. Perhaps it's the imagery of that.

Yes. People are really hung up on personifying or embodying agents: Rabbit M1, etc.

The hype is incandescent right now but Clawdbot/Moltbot will be largely forgotten in 2 months.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Post by esafak »

mattmaroon wrote: post #27
putlake wrote: post #9

The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

Funny. I was expecting LEGO not Kellogg.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Post by ikidd »

mattmaroon wrote: post #27
putlake wrote: post #9

The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

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Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Post by bpodgursky »

ikidd wrote: post #39
mattmaroon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline. Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t. They then sued for $15 million.

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> The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights.

I mean this is the OP sentence, it's not about the food truck, it's about setting a precedent that you don't care, which costs you later when a competing brand starts distributing in a way that can actually confuse consumers.

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