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Re:Zynga wants me to change the name of my product on Friday May 17, 2013 @08:38PM (#5727442)
This is a trademark issue-- not copyright. "Likelihood of confusion" on the part of the consumers is the main standard. Seems unlikely a a judge or jury will find that the reasonable consumer will conflate the app and the play.
Well, for one thing the "double up" option is not a part of standard poker. More conspicuously, physical poker involves a high degree of observation/manipulation/etc of human opponents and that is not a part of video poker.
Re:Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies on Sunday February 24, 2013 @08:32AM (#5274116)
Re:Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @09:24PM (#5106745)
Why do you keep ramming Section 8, DoJ, and Congress down our throats? This sort of regulation, if it were to happen, would be done at the state or local level.