• Aurix@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Assholes. This is clearly not infringing, because they are quite different. If this goes through, we will have the copyright wars on letters, where one company blocks all others.

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      10 months ago

      Will have? Frivolous patent-trolling has been a thing for a long time. It’s a massive waste of public resources.

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        10 months ago

        Trademarks are very different from patents. They are the one form of IP that basically everyone should be okay with. Unlike copyright and patents, they are more about consumer protection than about control.

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            10 months ago

            It absolutely is an important distinction when you’re saying “stuff like this happens a lot” with reference to patent-trolling, but there’s no such thing as “Trademark-trolling”