Thread: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
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shawnjefferson is offline shawnjefferson
2015-07-18 , 18:16
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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Not a lawyer, just woody and endsormeans bring up examples from patent cases, we have tons of dead trademarks (amiga, atari, c64, zx spectrum... you name it) and communities that have grown around them and not a single case of problems coming to life because a community of enthusiasts is using a trademark that was re-registered/repurposed.
That isn't quite true. Atari for instance, is a currently owned trademark, and that company *did* go after several sites and other IP that they own and ask them to be shutdown or renamed.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-has-left.aspx

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/18/824...-4-jeff-minter

So, it is not a far-fetched scenario that a presumably long-dead brand sold to a new owner decides to exert its trademarks.
 

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