mleku on Nostr: FYI you can't trademark a name colours, marks, special styles, at best, can't just be ...
FYI you can't trademark a name
colours, marks, special styles, at best, can't just be a word made in a commonly available font. AT ALL
so, yeah, BLOCK CLOCK and BLOCKCLOCK and GitHub and github and Git Hub and gitHub nope, cannot trademark these
why do you think that microsoft's logo looked like this for a very long time:
see the ligature between o and s?
devices... here is an example which you can read the word "DEVICE" on the fine print on any can or bottle of coca cola:
it's not even the text that can be trademarked, it has to be something visual
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How does trademark work with prior use of the name?
djuri (nprofile…mgdy)
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