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In reply to the discussion: LOL: ... Facebook discovers there's already a tech company with that name and it filed for trademark [View all]ProfessorGAC
(77,169 posts)32. Ya Think?!?!?
It takes seconds to search trademarks, and the list can do downloaded as a .txt file, which can be opened in Excel.
Some of our specialty blends were named by lab information from the development.
We'd search that list in Excel to make sure the number sequence wasn't TM'd.
Took a minute or 2.
This is pretty sloppy work for a huge company. Maybe they're too big to still be efficient.
This is a failure of multiple departments.
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LOL: ... Facebook discovers there's already a tech company with that name and it filed for trademark [View all]
demmiblue
Nov 2021
OP
They probably did, they will make a multi million offer for the transfer. Happens a lot.
LiberalArkie
Nov 2021
#60
Reminds me of years ago, when NBC networks redesigned their logo, only to find . . .
Journeyman
Nov 2021
#10
Bad lawyers become corporate lawyers because they can't succeed at a firm.
ZonkerHarris
Nov 2021
#56
In hindsight with 30 more secs to chew on it: He will just buy that Meta outright?
Brainfodder
Nov 2021
#22
Or "metta", the Buddhist term for lovingkindness. Part of their new image, right?
TheRickles
Nov 2021
#41
Facebook probably thinks they'll do a Sir Richard Branston, suing everyone with Virgin in their name
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2021
#54