<div dir="ltr"><div>If you take a look at <a href="https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/4">https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/4</a> you will notice that the keyword name menace(premium photography, win8 metro style, the magazine, bootstrap-on, sans-serif, mobile first, design furniture) is growing and its purpose is to abuse the domain authority of <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a> in Google, one remedy is to ask those theme authors to remove all branding, credit link and pro upgrade links, that will certainly demotivate such tactics.<br>
<br></div>This can be applied to already live themes too.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Peter Kakoma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kakomap@gmail.com" target="_blank">kakomap@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hehehe. Good points. Agreed </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 Jun 2014 17:20, "Chip Bennett" <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">There are some huge differences:<div><br></div><div>1) Apple owns the entire App store</div><div>2) Apple has an army of paid staffers to enforce their guidelines</div><div><br></div><div>WPORG does not own the sole distribution means for Themes, and I would prefer that the limited time available to the reviewers enforcing the Guidelines be spent on things far more important/beneficial than conducting Google searches of Theme names.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Peter Kakoma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kakomap@gmail.com" target="_blank">kakomap@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I do largely agree with all that's been said, particularly what Chip, Emil & Bryan said. However, allow me to throw a spanner in the works.<br>
This isn't a new issue so we wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. The Apple store has some guidelines and so does the Google Play store (and basically all stores that accept stuff from developers)<br>
</div></div></div>To quote the play store guidelines: (edited to leave the bit that matters the most here)<br><br><strong>Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior:</strong> Apps must not have names or icons
that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps supplied with the device <br><div><br></div><div>Checking if a name has been used before is a simple Google search; takes no more than 1 minutes I think. <br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=box+site:wordpress.org%2Fthemes" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=box+site:wordpress.org%2Fthemes</a><br></div><div>One basically prefixes the search term with <i>site:<a href="http://wordpress.org/themes" target="_blank">wordpress.org/themes</a><br>
<br><br></i></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Here's what I replied with to the other discussion (didn't realize there was a bigger one at hand):<br>
<br>"I agree, it's theme developer's responsibility to not infringe on
trademarks and trademark holder's responsibility to protect their
trademarks, but impossible for the theme review team (except for in
extremely obvious cases) to check for or inform of possible trademark
issues."<br><br></div>That's the only logical solution. In other words, in the rare event that this issue comes up, I'm sure it will be dealt with by the parties involved or brought to WordPress directly to have the infringing content removed. But, having the team go as far as to Google the theme name to see if it's already been used or check against the USPTO would be insane, that's the theme developer's due diligence to make sure their theme/product names are unique and original, as in not taken.<br>
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