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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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would the enforceability of a trademark in this situation not also depend on whether an average person could easily distinguish the meta threads app from the other company? It's been a while since I took this class and admittedly it was for non-majors but the way it was explained to us is that you can open a used car lot called "McDonald's", you just can't sell burgers or lead people to believe that the burger joint is now selling used cars.
Probably, I don't know, TBH the elective course I took was single week of summer school, 2 ECTS points, passed by attendance. And it was around 2010.