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That's not the point

Authored by: mschmitz on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 05:49 PM EDT

Agreed about the common use preempting a trade mark - I thought you meant to say
they might see a chance to pursue this in the US based solely on a German
registration. That's what I thought ludicrous.

I concur with another poster further down - the registrants clearly knew what
they were doing, and may have no inclination to drop the mark now. Whether the
company is well known or well respected (in their core area of business), I have
no idea.

Whether something is protectable because it is not a proper german word I doubt
very much - lots of english words have made it into the language (just as many
french and latin or greek ones centuries earlier). Whether 'hackathon' qualifies
as being common enough or a combination of common terms. I don't know.

-- mschmitz

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