They need to if they're going to be serious about keeping the name "Paper" with no mention of 53. To me it seems an absurd goal because it will be very expensive and has no substantive benefit for the product, But if having a single word generic mark on their application is desired they need to get out there and defend it. They will probably need to pursue "Papers
By mekentosj.com" and other similarly named products to be successful.
FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper”
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#32Why were people so up in arms over King's attempt to trademark "Candy", but suddenly it's OK to trademark "Paper"?!?
King used their trademarks to attack smaller players. FiftyThree is using theirs to defend against a larger player. Also, King has trademarked "Candy" across a lot of areas where they don't even have products. The application for "Paper" seems more specific.
FiftyThree also sort of did the same thing to a smaller player as well
http://figure53.com/notes/2014-02-04-david-and-goliath/
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#33That should go well. Just today I was taking notes on a product that clearly stole their brand: a piece of loose leaf notebook paper.
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#34After reading this I kind of regret buying Paper's (FiftyThree) digital pencils/brushes/etc. A drawing app wanting to kill the use of that word in other industry verticals... i think "trademark troll" is now a real thing
So you should be able to start a computer manufacturer and call it Apple?
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#35After reading this I kind of regret buying Paper's (FiftyThree) digital pencils/brushes/etc. A drawing app wanting to kill the use of that word in other industry verticals... i think "trademark troll" is now a real thing
Or, perhaps, they want to defend themselves in case Facebook makes a move against them regarding their brand name.
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#36After reading this I kind of regret buying Paper's (FiftyThree) digital pencils/brushes/etc. A drawing app wanting to kill the use of that word in other industry verticals... i think "trademark troll" is now a real thing
So you should be able to start a computer manufacturer and call it Apple?
No. I should be able to start a magazine and call it Apple. Facebook isn't launching a drawing app nor FiftyThree a social network.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
King used their trademarks to attack smaller players. FiftyThree is using theirs to defend against a larger player. Also, King has trademarked "Candy" across a lot of areas where they don't even have products. The application for "Paper" seems more specific.
FiftyThree also sort of did the same thing to a smaller player as well http://figure53.com/notes/2014-02-04-david-and-goliath/
There's a link on HN but it didn't do very well... odd.
Upvote it back on the mainpage... looks like a bad title buried it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you should be able to start a computer manufacturer and call it Apple?
No. I should be able to start a magazine and call it Apple. Facebook isn't launching a drawing app nor FiftyThree a social network.
But both are competing in the the same place, the app store, over the same thing, your attention and money.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. I should be able to start a magazine and call it Apple. Facebook isn't launching a drawing app nor FiftyThree a social network.
But both are competing in the the same place, the app store, over the same thing, your attention and money.
That's an absurd argument. You are saying Kayak.com is competing directly against kayak (boat) retailers on Google because they have the same name. I'm sorry but that "competing" argument is pure speculation, borderline bs.
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#40If you don't want someone to eventually use the same name as you, you shouldn't use something so generic.
I'm sure they weren't the first, and won't be the last, person to use "paper".