3 letters of a NPM developers package? for real?? I'm pretty sure the owners of Kik wouldn't care that that developer package is named Kik. I can find 1000s of mentions of Kik online which validates the trademark. Starting from @kik on twitter to an online project of a random student.

Pursuing a NPM package names?????? for real?!

If you've ever worked with lawyers you would have known that they would always be on the conservative (safe) side without understand the business implications.