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Why? The trademark has been filed in Germany by a German events directory. Their main focus appears to be club events, not nerd events and indeed there is only one listing from mid last year for a hackathon. Are they getting into the trademark troll business on the side?
Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked. I ran into the problem buying Google ads, and the ads would get rejected for a trademark violation. The whole campaign would get messed up because I targeted english speakers worldwide and the ads got rejected because the word "immersion" is trademarked in Germany. Edit: I think Google has since improved the error message and gives a message like…
Like "Apple"?
Germans brothers called 'Samwer' copycat any existing successful website like ebay, amazon etc. Now they probably will trademark any single existing word. So typically german, just like chinese...
Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked. I ran into the problem buying Google ads, and the ads would get rejected for a trademark violation. The whole campaign would get messed up because I targeted english speakers worldwide and the ads got rejected because the word "immersion" is trademarked in Germany. Edit: I think Google has since improved the error message and gives a message like…
"Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked." Like "Apple"?
Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked. I ran into the problem buying Google ads, and the ads would get rejected for a trademark violation. The whole campaign would get messed up because I targeted english speakers worldwide and the ads got rejected because the word "immersion" is trademarked in Germany. Edit: I think Google has since improved the error message and gives a message like…
"Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked." Like "Apple"?
Why? The trademark has been filed in Germany by a German events directory. Their main focus appears to be club events, not nerd events and indeed there is only one listing from mid last year for a hackathon. Are they getting into the trademark troll business on the side?
Edit: The agency also has a word mark on "Nerd Zone", both seem to be motivated by this: http://www.nerd-zone.com/hackathon.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked." Like "Apple"?
You are right, that may not be a fair characterization. The problem I see is how a list of trademarked words becomes blacklisted for use in advertising. I am fine if Germans want to let any word be trademarked, and then sort it out later in the court system. But we have a situation where the trademark list is auto-uploaded to Google and stops the word "hackathon" from being used in ads in Germany, thus a real problem…
I've organized a few hackathons in Germany and am pretty disgusted by finding this. I've already contacted a few fellow organizers to find out what we can do about this.