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  • @[email protected]
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    5211 months ago

    Wholly incorrect. I work in trademark law and yeah you have no idea what you’re talking about.

    • circuscritic
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      11 months ago

      So… hypothetically, what if I’ve already used his comment as legal advice to launch my social network, “PepSi”?

      Is DrMoose on the hook for damages, to me? What are my options here?

      • @[email protected]
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        911 months ago

        I don’t agree with the one you’re replying to, but trademark is usually bound to a sector. I’m pretty sure Pepsi trademarked all sectors known to mankind, but many companies don’t do that. If I start a bakery called FooBarBaz I can trademark that just fine even if there’s a software company called FooBarBaz that trademarked the name only for software.

          • @Globulart
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            211 months ago

            It’s lemmy, I think there was around an 80% chance anyway…

        • circuscritic
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          11 months ago

          So you don’t foresee any legal issues with pursuing my dream of opening a chain of nail salons called “British Petroleum”?

            • circuscritic
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              11 months ago

              That’s a great slogan, really sums up the energy of the PepSi social network. I’ve just filed to trademark it.

              What if down the road I wanted to use that slogan for my landscaping company, NiKE.

              Would that be an issue?

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            Depends… Did BP trademark it every which way to Sunday (say for multiple industries/uses)?

    • Dr. Moose
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      011 months ago

      I never claimed anything about the law just commented how uninteristing and dumb this whole thing is.