DeepKit Story: how $160M company killed EU trademark for a small OSS project

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1mopzhz/160m_vcbacked_company_just_killed_my_eu_trademark/

42•molszanski•2h ago

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molszanski•2h ago

What would you do if random corp would come and try to hijack your open source identity?

bawolff•1h ago

Did they actually try and hijack their identity? Hijack to me implies actively trying to steal their reputation. Sounds more like the name wasn't particularly unique and they independently decided they wanted to use that name.

gnabgib•1h ago

Post from the OP on HN (27 points, 18 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883634

Also partially discussed in a bad-link submission (48 points, 18 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883561

molszanski•1h ago

Thanks. I searched but failed to find it :/ Will drop this submission. THANK YOU!

raverbashing•1h ago

Honestly just cut your losses and move on

Google Analytics is not something that's "trademark used for actual trade"

Is the big company being a jerk? 100% But then sign m again the project is self-described as a "small OSS project"

I can understand it being handled like that as it prevents "trademark squatting"

molszanski•1h ago

Poster here: This post is a duplicate. I did hit the hide button. I don’t understand why it still gets traffic. Please go to the OP post and upvote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883634

stefan_•41m ago

Hide only hides it for you

vorpalhex•40m ago

@Dang maybe you can do your mod magic since this is an accidental dupe?

fakedang•39m ago

I just have one thing to say and that's fuck the uneducated swine at EUIPO. If you're going to be bureaucratic about random shit, at least get it right pigs.

I don't even know how EUIPO even let "Deepki" get trademarked, but as another comment explained, of course the offending part used another bureaucratic loophole to work under the hood.

Fuck Deepki and fuck the EUIPO (again).

/Unproductive rant over

mmmlinux•38m ago

Trademarks mean nothing. A bigger company can always come along and bully you till you give it up. Just like what happened to Allen Pan and his Mythbusters trademark.

ljlolel•35m ago

My friend won a 9 figure trademark case with a mag7 company

daedrdev•23m ago

The EU pushes heavily for consent for tracking, yet you need to track your users locations to keep your trademark, thus requiring that every company has to have a popup asking to track that data.

perching_aix•17m ago

Damn, didn't know the milk in the fridge has a tracker on it, that's crazy.

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