[theme-reviewers] Trademark Issue

Edward Caissie edward.caissie at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 20:16:20 UTC 2013


I've always admired the approach http://paint.net (a retailer) took to this
... they are kind enough to provide a link to the software which earns a
great deal of "brownie" points in my books as a business / organization to
work with, especially since http://getpaint.net (the Paint.net software
developer) does not reciprocate.

What's even nicer ... http://paint.net uses WordPress. Talk about coming
full circle.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, that's fine. The obvious issue is going to be confused users coming
> from Google ("groundwork wordpress" and similar) looking for one or the
> other and getting the wrong one, but that will only result in them going
> back to Google and searching again.
>
> Minor annoyance, since there's no monetization involved I can let it go
> and leave it up to the plugin author. If I were him I wouldn't want to name
> my plugin after an already established theme so now that he knows he'll
> likely want to change it anyways. But, if he doesn't oh well.
>
> Other than that, I should of trademarked it over a year ago when it was
> still unique. The name is completely regurgitated now anyways.
>
> Thanks as always for your super fast response to these issues.
>
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