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smt88
on March 23, 2016
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I've Just Liberated My Modules
As someone pointed out in another thread, you similarly couldn't name a package something like "facebook" even if Facebook had no API.
jackielii
on March 23, 2016
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there is a package called facebook:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/facebook
and it doesn't seem to be owned by facebook?
spinlock
on March 23, 2016
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facebook may be a bad example. they named themselves after a generic directory that many colleges have been giving out for decades.
smt88
on March 23, 2016
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See also: YellowPages.com, Salesforce.com, etc. Just because something exists in real life (and used to describe a non-digital version of the same thing) doesn't mean it can't then be trademarked.
spinlock
on March 28, 2016
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Sum had to change the name of its yellow pages application to nis because yellow pages is copy righted.
You don't seem to be very well informed.
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