I mean, they’re obviously not going to, so I guess Zuckerberg better go dust off what I can only assume is his comically large chequebook…
“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. Meta announced Threads in July 2023, the same time that the British company says it was removed from Facebook.”
Another reason to find Zuck & Company disgusting. Apparently “no” doesn’t mean “no” – will keep this in mind, next time I am downtown and come across any of their team…
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The bit about “no” not meaning “no” means they’re specifically implying meta employees can be sexually assaulted even if they say no. I’m sure it’s said in jest, but it’s still a fairly offensive comment.
It reads to me like they’re saying that they feel like they might be attacked by Meta employees.
That said, it’s uh… quite a choice to have made to say that.
Time to bust out the checkbook, Zuck.
These lawyers at Meta suck, or management sucks at Meta. Meta sucks?
Considering that Threads was not trademarked by Meta before their launch (or, at least, isn’t listed on their Trademarks page ) it is a massive fail on their legal department.
I think that’s neither. The whole thing boils down for me to an adult trying to strike a deal with a kid so the kid gives up their ice cream, the kid saying “no!”, and then the adult still grabbing the ice cream by force.
In other words I think that Meta run some risk assessment on the move, and decided that it was still profitable.
Yeah, I’d actually argue it’s the opposite. Meta knows exactly what it’s doing, it just sucks for the little guy.
Meta will just drag this out in the courts until the little guy can’t afford to keep going and then they settle.
Except that’s not opposite that’s the same
As long as the other company was actually USING the trademark, Meta will probably have to pay up. If the company was doing “Trademark-squatting”, with no real market use, Meta will probably get control of it. That’s all assuming they don’t settle for a few hundred thousand.
https://threads.cloud/ is linked directly from https://www.jpy.com/products so it seems safe to bet they’re using it.
How well do you think this is going to go over with their lawyers? I remember what happened to that other company called Meta…
What happened?
From Wikipedia:
“Meta” had been registered as a trademark in the United States in 2018 (after an initial filing in 2015) for marketing, advertising, and computer services, by a Canadian company that provided big data analysis of scientific literature. This company was acquired in 2017 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a foundation established by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and became one of their projects. Following the rebranding announcement, CZI announced that it had already decided to deprioritize the earlier Meta project, that it would be transferring its rights to the name to Meta Platforms, and that the project would end in 2022.
So, they bought it through their (non-profit?) foundation and killed it to harvest the name?
That sounds like a great outcome for the original company
