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    11 months ago

    Trademarks are very different from patents. They are the one form of IP that basically everyone should be okay with. Unlike copyright and patents, they are more about consumer protection than about control.

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        11 months ago

        It absolutely is an important distinction when you’re saying “stuff like this happens a lot” with reference to patent-trolling, but there’s no such thing as “Trademark-trolling”