Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

Post by bad_user » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #79

bad_user wrote: post #68

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Not only that, but those $80k could have paid for quite a few months of development, but instead those will be money going down the drain because of a broken justice system. And they have the nerve to say that IP laws are fueling innovation.

Trademark has barely anything to do with IP laws. You are referring to patents, and trademark legislation has nothing to do with patents.

Post by parfe » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

akmiller wrote: post #81

skratlo wrote: post #35

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Could you kindly explain me then what's the point of registering a trademark? Is it something you can then wave with in front of jury? Do you really need $80k for that? Do you need $80k to print out your accepted trademark application, and prove that you're in the business for 17 years? Sorry this is just complete non-sense and failure of the system.

The system is a mess. I have a small side project and I trademarked the name, yet a competitor of mine used my trademark to promote their site and after speaking with several people about my situation they made it clear that unless I was willing to put up about six figures to fight it there isn't much I could do.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:32 PM UTC

zaphoyd wrote: post #50

Andrenid wrote: post #23

Couldn't someone like Google, Apple, or any of the other huge companies who have made billions with the help of *nix and OSS in general step in and help out with what, to them, is a trivial drop in the bucket of money? Also how is it even legal for someone to so openly and malicious intrude on a trademarked name? I thought that's the entire point of trademarks.. it protects you from this?

Apple isn't really a stranger to announcing products with already trademarked names..

Post by outworlder » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #93

nodata wrote: post #66

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I'm not sure what you are suggesting here..

That I have no idea what in this whole process takes so much money. If trademarks take this much money to defend, you might as well just sue anyone trying to use your name without filing a trademark.