Hacker News with Generative AI: Trademark

Figma is trademarking the word 'Dev Mode' and is sending cease and desists (reddit.com)
Figma is trying to trademark the word 'Dev Mode' and is sending cease and desists

Software, Legal Issues, Trademark, Figma

12 points by 101008 10 days ago | 2 comments

Banksy Fights with Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark (robbreport.com)
Banksy, the anonymous British graffiti artist, risks losing the right to his own name in a landmark case brought against him by a greeting card company.

Art, Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark

54 points by abetusk 71 days ago | 20 comments

Hoarder (the name) is being stolen from me (reddit.com)
This post could have been about how hoarder reached 10k stars on Github, or about how we spent a day in the front page of hackernews. But unfortunately, it's about neither of those. Today, I received a cease and desist from someone holding the "Hordr" trademark claiming that "Hoarder" infringes their trademark.

Legal Issues, Trademark, Open Source

5 points by evanjrowley 91 days ago | 0 comments

Deno is filing a USPTO petition to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark (bsky.app)

Legal, Trademark, JavaScript, Deno, Oracle

9 points by sangeeth96 155 days ago | 0 comments

Facebook sues an app for having "face" in title (reddit.com)

Facebook, Lawsuits, Social Media, Trademark

3 points by prakhar897 157 days ago | 0 comments

Legal ping-pong in the WordPress world continues (techcrunch.com)
The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.

Legal Issues, WordPress, Trademark, Community

5 points by janandonly 213 days ago | 0 comments

Matt Mullenweg insinuates using "WordPress" in hosting plans infringes trademark (twitter.com)

WordPress, Trademark, Legal Issues, Social Media

10 points by DonnieBurger 217 days ago | 2 comments

Oracle urged again to give up JavaScript trademark (theregister.com)
JavaScript luminaries and at least 2,500 other interested parties have again asked Oracle to set the programming language free by walking away from the trademark for its name.