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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by chrismorgan on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:17PM (#41727043)
I’m curious: what else is there to a trademark? Nominal ownership may lie with the Foundation, but if they’ve granted “irrevocable, exclusive, royalty-free rights in the WordPress trademarks right back to Automattic” (as claimed in this lawsuit), what else is there? Maybe there is something, I’m no lawyer or particularly deeply familiar with trademark law, but it sounds to me like, for all practical purposes, ownership belonging to the Foundation is a furphy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furphy>.

(This is an honest question.)

Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by johannes1234321 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:34PM (#41733504)
I guess one difference is that if the company ceases to exist it falls back to the foundation and there might be classes around acquisition etc.