Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by bufferoverflow on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:30AM
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Which of them will own apple.com?
Which of them will own Apple trademark?
Which of them will own Apple logo?
Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by the_mitsuhiko on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:37AM
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For a point of reference here have a look at how many independent companies share the “Sparkasse” or “Raiffeisen”
trademarks and Logos on Europe.
We can compromise and say "none" :P
There will probably be trademark usage agreements, like with companies who split themselves like Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility (owned by Lenovo) both license the Motorola trademark from Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC unclear who owns the holding company.
Trivialities that antitrust regulations already cover. It would not be the first time a company has been broken up.
Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by bufferoverflow on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:15AM
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You didn't answer the question.
I don't have to: I'm not a judge specialized in antitrust law and I don't have access to Apple's books to determine what would be more appropriate.
But a judge can, and will (if asked to), because - as I said - it's hardly an unprecedented situation. Just to mention one, AT&T still exists as a brand but was once broken up.
Think of everything that Apple (Meta, Google) do, think on which components would benefit from having startups replace and distrupt them and then break them up on those seams while forcing them to allow competition between their fragments (e.g. iPhone with Android OS, iOS on Microsoft phone platform, MacBook M1 with ARM Windows, iOS iPhone with Google Pay, etc. etc.).