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Re:TransferWise changes name to Wise by sangnoir on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:37AM (#26225692)
Trademarks are granted within specific fields, so they won't have any trouble defending it against people providing related goods and service (banking/finance/transfers) using a similar mark. The won't be able to defend against someone else using "Wise" in a different field (say, an education platform) but that is as designed. It is unfortunate that large corporations overzealously "defend" their trademarks against all usage of the trademark even in unrelated fields, that is abuse of the process and not how the law was intended to work, they basically drown you with lawyer fees.
Re:TransferWise changes name to Wise by rodiger on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:55PM (#26231198)
that's a rough one to defend when this exists: https://www.wise.us/