Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by howlgarnish on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:41AM
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It may be a trademark issue as well, since there's a very well known trust and former pharma giant (now part of GlaxoSmithKline) that uses the same name: https://wellcome.org/about-us
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by CharmingOpp on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:43AM
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There’s also a market by the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by wdb on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:00AM
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Yes, I was confused about the naming too. As there is the Wellcome Foundation/museum in London
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by dhosek on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:15PM
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My first thought when I saw the name was the Wellcome Trust, for whom I did some work when I was in college. It's a poor choice of name.
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by wussboy on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:29AM
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With all these examples of other things that have the same name, is almost like it’s okay if a bunch of things have the same name
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by zoom6628 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:45AM
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And a Hong Kong supermarket of the same name.
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by regularfry on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:42AM
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My first thought was that they're going to trip over a bunch of pharma trademarks.
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by FunnyLookinHat on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:30PM
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I used to work at https://wellcomemat.com :)
Re:Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employee...
by whiddershins on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:23AM
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Why isn’t it Well com
Like a telecom but for wellness
wellcom.org
Edit: Considering there seems to be a charity with the same name active in Covid19, this also seems to be a bad choice for legal reasons.
https://wellcome.org/