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The name is going to be quickly problematic if the trademark holder for golinks.io decides to get litigious: https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/zamora-jorge-
by sullivanmatt 4y ago
The name is going to be quickly problematic if the trademark holder for golinks.io decides to get litigious:
https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/zamora-jorge-3828689/ https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/zamora-jorge-3828689/
- jazamora 4y agoTrademark was found via a Hackernews thread? You guys are good :) We have three trademarks that we've defended successfully before. Would encourage anyone wanting to try to use go/links, to just sign up to https://www.golinks.io https://www.golinks.io ... it's completely free to use, forever and you can get started in a few seconds. We're trying to get go/links everywhere and are happy to be at the forefront of that :)
- Laremere 4y agoI was going to say the terminology comes from inside Google, where afaik go links were invented. However, yeah, that's straight up a trademark. You'd need a lawyer to know whether the trademark would survive litigation, and whether the s on those trademarks makes a material difference. (OP isn't plural, those trademarks are)
- vineyardmike 4y agoHow can they defend a trademark that people used (at Google) before them?
- sullivanmatt 4y agoA trademark is not a patent, you don't need to prove you were first to have "the idea". [IANAL] It's the first to use the term in a commercial context, which Google has not.
- mcqueenjordan 4y agoIt would also be pretty ironic if so, given that the idea was basically lifted from Google internal infra.
- fbdab103 4y agoI mean, TinyURL launched in 2002.
- mcqueenjordan 4y agoPoint taken, but I think it's a different concept -- named internal short-links versus randomly generated small strings for longer links.
- sullivanmatt 4y agoDon't confuse a trademark with a patent. Even if Google uses "go links" internally, the fact remains that the trademark is registered and in use by another entity.