Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

Post by jforman » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:00 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #49

FooBarWidget wrote: post #32

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It's because lawyers are that expensive.

Let's assume they cost $500 an hour, which is probably enough to pay three of them but I have no idea about the price so let's assume it's that. Then $80k / 500 = 160 hours. Does it take 160 hours, or 4 work weeks full-time, to write a letter or fill out some form saying that "hey, we registered this back in 2006, you should reject these applications"?

Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:02 PM UTC

Post by maaaats » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:04 PM UTC

crorella wrote: post #67

jabbernotty wrote: post #44

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Yes, it is a disappointment. And yet, it is the reality. As a result, the GNOME team does still need to pay their lawyers.

This is really disappointing and could be use to harass a company, what stops a malicious group of people do a "copyright ddos" by just forcing a company to pay 80k each time they need to defend it's trademarks?

Post by rasengan » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:08 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #76

rasengan wrote: post #72

One of the lead security people at Groupon has a big GNOME sticker on his laptop in a pic on LinkedIn. This tells me that groupon is about to get pooped on.

You should definitely save that pic and a timestamp or something to that effect. Bonus points if you do it in front of a lawyer in the right jurisdiction.

Post by ekianjo » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #68

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.

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.