Meta has 30 days to stop using the name

  • Ghostalmedia
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    1801 year ago

    Same name, same industry - digital messaging.

    If Meta didn’t have a massive amount of money and lawyers, this would be a VERY easy case to win.

    Meta decided they wanted the name, tried to buy it, and then opted to knowingly rip it out of a smaller company’s hands. What a bunch of assholes.

    • @Fredselfish
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      601 year ago

      Why was he hell bent on using the name Threads. Every time I hear it makes me think of the Dragon Riders or Pern. Not messaging app. Fuck Meta hope the real Threads company wins.

      • @glimse
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        451 year ago

        I agree with the last sentence but Threads seems like a completely appropriate name for the service. Online conversations have been called threads for decades

        • sour
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          social media platform called posts when

        • no banana
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          91 year ago

          Right but it could’ve had a nonsense name, like Troods.

          • @glimse
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            131 year ago

            …Troods would have been enough for me to try it out so fair point

            • no banana
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              31 year ago

              I’d fucking love Troods.

        • @Aqarius
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          51 year ago

          That just makes it too generic to trademark then. Imagine an automaker called “Cars”.

          • Daniel
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            41 year ago

            Or a social media platform called “X.”

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          The name just reminds me of the film. So I just assume that like the film the site is nightmare fuel and avoid it.

      • anonionfinelyminced
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        111 year ago

        “Drummer, beat, and piper, blow,
        Harper, strike, and soldier, go.
        Free the flame and sear the grasses
        Till the dawning Red Star passes.”

      • Chris
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        51 year ago

        It makes me think of the apocalyptic nuclear war drama. Quite appropriate.

      • Jolteon
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        21 year ago

        To be fair, apps like that do tend to encourage people to isolate themselves at home, rather than going to meet people outside.

    • @[email protected]
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      441 year ago

      What a bunch of assholes.

      Yeah, it’s really surprising that an ethical, upstanding company like Meta would pull a dick move like that. It’s so out of character.

      • @[email protected]
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        an ethical, upstanding company like Meta

        the hardest I’ve laughed this week 🥲

    • snooggums
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      221 year ago

      It seems like money shouldn’t be able to buy a win in court for something so obvious, but here we are.

  • @Zoldyck
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    971 year ago

    They should rename it to Twitter

    • Maeve
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      251 year ago

      Because that’s what you do when you’re a trust find baby with no guard rails and plenty of money.

    • @n3m37h
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      Removed by mod

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    151 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Dr. John Yardley, Threads Ltd’s managing director told Gizmodo in an email that Threads Ltd. waited four months to reach out to Meta to obtain enough legal advice to ensure they could “proceed with action with any reasonable confidence of winning it.”

    Threads Ltd., owned by JPY Ltd., widely promoted the company since 2014, two years after it trademarked its name.

    The company said in its letter that since its inception, it has licensed nearly 1,000 organizations globally and claims its sales are growing by an average of 200% per year.

    “We recognize that this is a classic ‘David and Goliath’ battle with Meta,” Yardley said in the letter.

    Meta launched Threads in June and gained 100 million users within the first five days, surpassing its competitor X.

    A month later, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said more than half of Threads users stopped using the platform.


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  • Lizzy Wizzy
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    91 year ago

    Not a chance this holds up. But maybe an easy payout for the little guy

  • Infiltrated_ad8271
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    71 year ago

    I don’t even remember them anymore, I haven’t heard from them since the endless news of their fast rise. How are they doing?

  • @Agent641
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    51 year ago

    When I think of threads I think of