David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squaresmpl@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIf you modify a trademarked product and sell/distribute it, you can’t use the trademarked name to describe it unless you get permission to do so.
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agounsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
minus-squaresmpl@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoUnless you refer to something other than violation of a trademark, I’m curious to know how it’s more complicated than that?
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWP was explicitly not a trademarked term
minus-squaresmpl@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI haven’t stumpled upon anything that complained about the use of the letters WP.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoWhat do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
If you modify a trademarked product and sell/distribute it, you can’t use the trademarked name to describe it unless you get permission to do so.
unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
Unless you refer to something other than violation of a trademark, I’m curious to know how it’s more complicated than that?
WP
was explicitly not a trademarked termI haven’t stumpled upon anything that complained about the use of the letters WP.
What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?