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Leo must be running into hard times. Usually this sort of move is a play when your main business isn’t thriving.
Twitter have gone lumbering into Leo's registered trademark class: "IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment in the nature of visual and audio performances, and musical, variety, news and comedy shows."
What do you think they'd do if he started a microblogging service under the TWiT name?
How is this any different from patent trolling? Nobody confuses TWiT for Twitter, or vice versa. I don't think TWiT should be in a position to make money off Twitter's entry into video, just like some random patent troll shouldn't be able to monetize ludicrous patents
It's been a nightmare trying to play TWiT on my Google Home Mini. I tried asking it "Play TWiT Live on iHeartRadio", and it replied "I looked for Twitter Live on iHeartRadio, but it either isn't available or can't be played right now". I get a similar response to "Play TWiT Live on TuneIn", though it usually turns that one into "Tweet Live".
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I know there's a show called This Week in Tech, but do people actually call it 'twit'?
I’ve always referred to their entire network as TWiT. If memory serves me correctly, all their shows (not just This Week in Tech) used to begin with a bumper that said “Netcasts you love, from people you trust. This.....is TWiT.”
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Care to elaborate? I never got too into his shows, but he never seemed particularly uncool to me.
I was a fan of Leo from back in the zdtv days but over the last year I've had enough of him and don't watch anything he does any more. Reasons include his constant use of "funny" indian and russian accents, constant on air sexual "jokes" to and about female guests (he once admitted on air that Kate Botello filed a complaint with HR about him back in the techtv days and Shannon Morse and Sarah Lane have both made a #m…
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I like Security Now. And when Fr. Robert Ballecer is covering for Leo I simply love it. Leo is a little clueless on the hard issues, and Fr. Robert can milk more info out of Steve and go to more in depth discussions. Too bad he's leaving the network...
Exactly right. I stopped listening to SN, because Laporte being on auto-pilot for 90% of each episode does not make for an interesting conversation.
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Except an agreement isn't really the same thing as a contract. For a contract to be legal, there has to be "consideration". I'm not sure if anything qualifies as consideration in this case.
Allowing use of an existing trademark is a form of consideration AFAICT, although I'm not a lawyer.
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I upvoted because Twitch is a really interesting case. The Levenshtein distance between the trademarks is closer, and Twitch is pretty much entirely focused on video, which makes it encroaching on TWiT's domain of business.
The CEO of twitch presumably didn't have a conversation with Laporte and promise to never get into the video business.
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Care to elaborate? I never got too into his shows, but he never seemed particularly uncool to me.
I was a fan of Leo from back in the zdtv days but over the last year I've had enough of him and don't watch anything he does any more. Reasons include his constant use of "funny" indian and russian accents, constant on air sexual "jokes" to and about female guests (he once admitted on air that Kate Botello filed a complaint with HR about him back in the techtv days and Shannon Morse and Sarah Lane have both made a #m…
It's a good reminder to those of us who assume otherwise that otherwise perfectly intelligent, rational and seemingly polite and reasonable people can be completely blind to this sort of thing.