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  • They registered “hordr”, not “hoarder”. It’s not your fault that there exist valid words in the dictionary, that describe what your app is doing, that they are not using.

    This is just the usual case of domain and trademark squatting. If they attempt to further raise a finger (which from what I have read, from a judiciary point of view they haven’t), you have good grounds to countersue. You can also provide the C&D as evidence of threatening and harassment and probably counts for suing the party who sent it if they used a third party, as there’s supposedly a penalty for issuing false or trolling C&Ds.

    That said: in a decent legal system no one should be able to trademark dictionary words. I’d suggest you change your trademark from “hoarder” to “hoarder.app” or something similar, as at the moment you trying to trademark a dictionary word is a vulnerability point that opponents with more money to waste can use to attack you, as this shows.












  • I hope this teaches them the valuable lesson of always having domains with more than one registrar.

    Or, hopefully, we migrate to a system more advanced than DNS registrars where your “name” can be taken down by an unrelated third party. The current system sucks and the fact that even the Fediverse relies on it (accounts are tied to domains, making full account migration impossible) makes even the remains of my pre-graduate CS student brain rumble.


  • I don’t want to, BUT companies are supposed to make efforts to protect their IP or they run the risk of losing those exclusive protections when it matters later on (abandonment).

    My understanding is that 1.- they are not forced to defend against every possible case of trademark usage 2.- they are not obligated by law to be jerks about it and 3.- this applies to trademark only, not copyright or patents.