nickdalzell
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Someone tell me why this brand gets away with using the name?
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Linus Torvalds should sue
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It's hard for me to tell what that is, exactly. Is it candy? Regardless, I'm guessing that it can use the name because Linus didn't trademark it in whichever country that's from. Or, more likely, because the product is completely unrelated to his product. I have a design on one of my web sites that a state took exception to, claiming they owned the rights to it. It's true that they own the rights to its particular slogan, but ONLY when it's associated with the particular genre they trademarked it for. Since our Linux has to do with computers, a candy [or whatever that is] named Linux is very likely legal.Someone tell me why this brand gets away with using the name?
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detergent?
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
it is a manfacturer of paper towels and dish detergent.
Someone tell me why this brand gets away with using the name?
The Rosch Company might have thought of the name before Linus did. Could have been a registered trademark before he was even born. Persil has been a registered trademark for laundry detergent for over a century.
Here's a couple more...
...neither are particularly computer or software related.
...neither are particularly computer or software related.
Here's the definitive answer, they both own the trademark but for completely different things and is legal.
Who Owns Linux? Linus. . .And A Detergent Company In Switzerland -
...and it would be the same for UNIX fire extinguishers and Micro Soft fabric softener. :thumbup:
A famous trademark issue was Apple, Apple Computer vs Apple Corps.. Especially when they started the iTunes Store selling music, and changed their name to Apple Inc. IANAL but I believe it's a lot harder to protect your trademark when it's a common dictionary noun, like "apple". Unllke a made-up artificial non-dictionary noun, like "Microsoft" or "Unix" or "Linux".
Monster Cable was trying seriously to protect their trademark, they were trying to sue many organisations and individuals that used "monster" in a company name or products. They even tried to sue Disney over Monsters Inc. and the job site monster.com. Problem is "monster" is a common dictionary noun.
BTW trademarks, copyright, patents and other forms of intellectual property (IP) are one of my interests.
Who Owns Linux? Linus. . .And A Detergent Company In Switzerland -
...and it would be the same for UNIX fire extinguishers and Micro Soft fabric softener. :thumbup:
A famous trademark issue was Apple, Apple Computer vs Apple Corps.. Especially when they started the iTunes Store selling music, and changed their name to Apple Inc. IANAL but I believe it's a lot harder to protect your trademark when it's a common dictionary noun, like "apple". Unllke a made-up artificial non-dictionary noun, like "Microsoft" or "Unix" or "Linux".
Monster Cable was trying seriously to protect their trademark, they were trying to sue many organisations and individuals that used "monster" in a company name or products. They even tried to sue Disney over Monsters Inc. and the job site monster.com. Problem is "monster" is a common dictionary noun.
BTW trademarks, copyright, patents and other forms of intellectual property (IP) are one of my interests.
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Android Enthusiast
my favorite dumb lawsuit was spike lee trying to sue spike tv.