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Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago::undefined

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[-] Octavio@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Gosh if only Meta hd money for lawyers, they could squish this like a bug. Oh, yeah. They do have money for lawyers. Tons of it.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Are you sure UK court allows it ? Because they filed in UK.

[-] Octavio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I don’t know anything about UK law but in my observations, giant corporations with tons of cash and armies of ~~lawyers~~ solicitors do what they want. I could be wrong but it is just my cynical view, not legal advice.

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

UK has a fairer legal system overall, but Meta will delay, delay, delay to avoid accountability and keep using the Threads name for the next umpteen years, and at some point the original owner of the trademark will settle for a nice payday (though nothing like what they'd win if they beat Meta's team of lawyers... which won't happen).

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

UK has a fairer legal system overall,

What??? I suppose it depends on certain contexts, but I wouldn't say overall. Super injuctions are a very obvious one. Also, just lack of constitutional protections.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Depressing that people treat money winning over justice as a given. There is realism, and then there's defeatism.

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