Huh. This isn’t some dirtbag domain squatter, either. This is a ten year old company with a serious, legitimate claim. Plus, their services are easily similar enough to create marketplace confusion, which is a major factor in trademark cases.
This doesn’t help, either:
It appears that Meta was aware of Threads before launching its platform of the same name. Company lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain ‘threads.app’ from Threads Software Ltd from April 2023, all of which were declined.
Zuck fucked up.
He didn’t “fuck up” so much as think he was big enough to bully the legal issue away.
They did it with the word “meta” here’s hoping they don’t get away with it a second time.
Did they really get away with it? It seems like they shot themselves in the foot with pointless rebranding and their sad attempts at whatever the metaverse is. In the end they lost a ton of money
My favorite trademark story is how McDonald’s lost the rights to the name Big Mac in Ireland due to an existing trademark
This happened in Australia too, that’s why we have hungry jacks and not burger king
Not just Ireland, southern Ireland is EU so they lost it in the whole of Europe
The BK near me was offering King Macs for a while just to take the piss
Southern Ireland isn’t a thing. Ireland makes up about 80% of the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland is what remains. But you’re correct, they challenged our local Ray Kroc and lost.
Clearly he should rename threads to Z.
You love to see it. Get fucked Zucky!
Let’s just hope the judge is not an idiot.
