Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by aardvarkr on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:57AM (#27038294)

Unfortunately Bose HAS to care in order to protect their trademark. That’s literally how trademark works. It has nothing to do with how big they are. Lawyers are 100% going to get involved and any of your bizarre posturing to the contrary is ridiculous.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by quonn on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:16AM (#27038495)

What if they don‘t know officially?

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by pwagland on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:38AM (#27038750)

Trademark has to be actively defended. It is quite unlike copyright in that respect. They can allow you to use the name under generous conditions, but if there is any chance that they could have reasonably known, and this post is definitely proof of that IMO, then they have to defend their trademark against infringement.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by johnwheeler on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:03AM (#27038364)

Bizarre posturing? That’s a strange choice of words. I didn’t say lawyers wouldn’t get involved, but at any rate, the chance isn’t 100%. I said OP is not likely to be sued.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by stingraycharles on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:54AM (#27038958)

Maybe not sued, but it’s very likely they will get a “cease & desist” letter soon.

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