Re:"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany
by thomasbachem on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:03PM
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They removed the image. Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/279887/pm/03-05-2013%201...
Re:"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany
by NicoleSimon on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:33PM
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The discussion can be found here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/159595270791268/permalink/44...
with the guy in charge. (You need to join the group to see the discussion)
There's a pretty big discussion/shitstorm going on in the Berlin Startups Facebook group.
The trademark owners claim that they want to use the licensing fees to support non-commercial events, quotation: "I think it's worth trying. If not, there sure will be other ways to finance non-commercial projects. I any cases it's better that it's a trademark of a non-commercial project, than of some cease-and-desist law firm."
I totally disagree with that whole idea though. Makes us Germans look ridiculous :-).