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What’s it going to take to get Hacker News commenters to stop perpetuating the myth that trademark holders are required to be litigious assholes if they don’t w

What’s it going to take to get Hacker News commenters to stop perpetuating the myth that trademark holders are required to be litigious assholes if they don’t want their trademarks to lapse?

duxup 3y ago
Probably people posting some helpful information about that?
- Adraghast 3y ago
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster Hope this helps!
  - duxup 3y ago
    Not really.
  - happytoexplain 3y ago
    This is a baffling response. You posited something very specific and interesting that other commenters are not touching on (that "must defend to retain" is exaggerated), but when asked about it, you responded with the same generic point as all the other commenters ("it's frivolous") - as though you had never even said the interesting thing in the first place.
  - dang 3y ago
    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
    - Adraghast 3y ago
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freehorse 3y ago
But there is no logic or legal ground for trademarking the word "monster" or the green/white colours in a logo. It is all about bullying smaller companies using their much higher budget.
- asdff 3y ago
  When you pay for an expensive legal team on retainer you probably need to get them to start bringing in money for the org to justify their size. From the article it seems like they just troll for any sort of putative copyright violation and just roll the dice.
  - viraptor 3y ago
    > need to get them to start bringing in money Suing indie game developers is not a way to do it. There's a good chance these lawyers need to be paid much more for the time of dealing with this case than the devs ever had available.
    - asdff 3y ago
      Maybe most are small fish, but maybe some are big fish too. Maybe catching all of these small fish gives you precedence when you do go up to face some big fish in the future, so the benefits to these costs perhaps will just materialize in the future.
- mtrower 3y ago
  Of course there is, is literally their mark of trade in their space. That kind of needs to be defensible to combat fraud. What’s not okay is how it’s being “defended” here. This is just abuse.

What’s it going to take to get Hacker News commenters to stop perpetuating the myth that trademark holders are required to be litigious assholes if they don’t want their trademarks to lapse?

duxup 3y ago

Probably people posting some helpful information about that?

Adraghast 3y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster Hope this helps!
- duxup 3y ago
  Not really.
- happytoexplain 3y ago
  This is a baffling response. You posited something very specific and interesting that other commenters are not touching on (that "must defend to retain" is exaggerated), but when asked about it, you responded with the same generic point as all the other commenters ("it's frivolous") - as though you had never even said the interesting thing in the first place.
- dang 3y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
  - Adraghast 3y ago
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freehorse 3y ago

But there is no logic or legal ground for trademarking the word "monster" or the green/white colours in a logo. It is all about bullying smaller companies using their much higher budget.

asdff 3y ago
When you pay for an expensive legal team on retainer you probably need to get them to start bringing in money for the org to justify their size. From the article it seems like they just troll for any sort of putative copyright violation and just roll the dice.
- viraptor 3y ago
  > need to get them to start bringing in money Suing indie game developers is not a way to do it. There's a good chance these lawyers need to be paid much more for the time of dealing with this case than the devs ever had available.
  - asdff 3y ago
    Maybe most are small fish, but maybe some are big fish too. Maybe catching all of these small fish gives you precedence when you do go up to face some big fish in the future, so the benefits to these costs perhaps will just materialize in the future.
mtrower 3y ago
Of course there is, is literally their mark of trade in their space. That kind of needs to be defensible to combat fraud. What’s not okay is how it’s being “defended” here. This is just abuse.