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Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

would the enforceability of a trademark in this situation not also depend on whether an average person could easily distinguish the meta threads app from the other company? It's been a while since I took this class and admittedly it was for non-majors but the way it was explained to us is that you can open a used car lot called "McDonald's", you just can't sell burgers or lead people to believe that the burger joint is now selling used cars.

[โ€“] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Probably, I don't know, TBH the elective course I took was single week of summer school, 2 ECTS points, passed by attendance. And it was around 2010.