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Re:Apple takes legal action against small company with pear ... by AsyncAwait on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:53AM (#24099645)
My point was that it probably wasn't deposited by codeguru.com because it costs a decent chunk of money to do so and websites don't necessarily have the resources, but if there was a pooling fund, maybe they would.

You'd still run the risk of Amazon just not looking it up or caring, but the legal grounds would be much more on your side, abet I agree that 20 year precedence should be strong enough in itself.

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Re:Apple takes legal action against small company with pear ... by pmorici on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:14AM (#24099769)
Does it? I registered a trade mark for my small business. Didn’t require a lawyer and the fee wasn’t more than a few hundred dollars per 5 year period as I recall.
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Re:Apple takes legal action against small company with pear ... by AsyncAwait on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:26AM (#24099835)
> I registered a trade mark for my small business. Didn’t require a lawyer and the fee wasn’t more than a few hundred dollars per 5 year period.

That's fair. However a few hundred dollars could still be quite a lot. Especially for a small website or an open-source project where this could be basically all their donations.

In codeguru.com's case however, I'd grant you that they probably did have a decent enough income to afford a trademark registration, just maybe not when they started and by now it really wasn't on anyone's mind.

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