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Re:"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany by unreal37 on Friday May 03, 2013 @12:13PM (#5650843)
Doesn't a trademark have the same rules of a patent, i.e. "prior art"?

Don't do anything. Let the company try and stop you.

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Re:"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany by Roritharr on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:29PM (#5651347)
In Germany they could stop me with a cease and desist i'd be court ordered to stop organizing an event until i can prove his claim wrong.

But as i've mentioned in my other post, this won't happen, it seems the good guys trademarked it.

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