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nikanjtoday at 2:22 PM1 replyview on HN

The biggest takeaway from this thread: Wow, nerds really don't know the difference between trademark and copyright


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coldpietoday at 2:43 PM

I feel your pain. Learning the basics of IP law is one of those "curses of knowledge"[1] because you can never not sound like a pedantic asshole whenever someone who doesn't know IP law tries to talk about IP law. "No, it's not a trademark suit, it doesn't matter if they've tried to defend it before. What, why are you even bringing up patents, it's not a specific, narrow invention, and it would've expired decades ago even if it was. Ahhh!"

[1] https://xkcd.com/1015/