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 -
Replying to @jlongster
@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 -
Replying to @wycats
@jlongster and the trademark system is expressly designed to avoid these notions of "globally owning a name" in most cases1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jlongster in general, trademark law has everything to do with real-world confusion. 1/3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @wycats
@jlongster so if someone tried to create a kik messaging package that had nothing to do with kik, kik would win 2/1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@jlongster otherwise, the names can live together in harmony 3/3
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