Sorry that the links to USPTO don't work, but the TLDR is there are dozens of "KIK"s that have nothing to do with the kik messaging product
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Replying to @wycats
And a good number of those "kik"s could theoretically have pkgs on npm. Further, you are entitled to your name based on "use in commerce"
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Replying to @wycats
npm is operating in a sufficiently broad venue that trademark claims have to be based on violating the relevant category, which "kik" wasn't
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Replying to @jlongster
@jlongster the only relevant law here is trademark, which is highly optimized for this very thing.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jlongster the real issue is that "what a user would expect" is a pretty hard thing to figure out given the global namespace of language3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@jlongster :D I think that makes sense. If a judge orders you to do something, sounds fine. Otherwise, I like github's policy
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