Windows, Apple, Google are all common words. Trademarks be a trademarking.

Google isn't a word; it is a misspelling of “googol” [1], itself hardly a common word.

Or more technically correct: google wasn't a word when Google was founded, but today google is listed in dictionaries [2] as a verb that means searching for something on Google.

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/googol

2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/google

imagine getting sued for using the word apple in things

Imagine a small mini golf course getting sued by Monster Cable for using the word "monster."

https://www.techdirt.com/2008/12/03/monster-mini-golf-using-...

Um. Apple records (the Beatles) had a lengthy legal dispute with an American fruit company from Northern California.

Sure, but a trademark applies for products and services in the same category.

If someone makes Apple crayons, that’s okay.

But somebody making media or computing devices with the name “Apple” in it, that’s a problem.

True, but the trademark is in this category though, "Pomodoro" along with "Pomodoro Timer."

> Examples of products can be, but are not limited to:

> - Timer

> - Software application – desktop, server, mobile

https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-guideli....

Just saying. Not sure they'd come after a project this size (thanks for sharing OP!). You could probably safely make a line of Pomodoro brand jet skis.

holy crap just read through the site and it was bizarre how somebody could spend so much effort reinventing an old Japanese time management technique by slapping an Italian name and demanding rent from anyone using the italian word for tomato

As noted in the trademark

> The English translation of "POMODORO" in the mark is "tomato" or "tomato plant".

https://trademarks.justia.com/857/90/pomodoro-85790837.html