Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me?

Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by debugnik on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:57PM (#35486905)

Edit: Nevermind, apparently they already did claim it.

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by kube-system on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:04PM (#35486981)

Huge companies often dabble in a lot of stuff that people don't immediately associate them with, and hold trademarks for those products/services:

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by fghsqwads on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:09PM (#35487660)

Just for fun and as a similar example

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by kube-system on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:31PM (#35487901)

There's apparently a ton of them:

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by monocasa on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:05PM (#35486985)

As has been stated in the thread, Disney has explicitly called out television sets on their trademark application for the term 'Dumbo'.

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by ansible on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:06PM (#35486999)

Whoever the TV maker is, do they have better lawyers than Disney? No? Better not to try then.

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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by bagels on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:16PM (#35487081)

Disney makes character branded tvs. It is not a defensible use of the name.

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