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A small UK software company which trademarked the name Threads over 10 years ago is demanding Meta stop using the name within 30 days (www.businessinsider.in)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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A small UK software company which trademarked the name Threads over 10 years ago is demanding Meta stop using the name within 30 days::Threads Software Limited and its lawyers wrote to Meta to tell it to stop using the Threads name in the UK.It's owned the British trademark for Threads since

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

do they even use the name? or did they just trademark it 10 years ago and left it abandoned until now? do they even compete in the same field? it's not like fb tried to use the UK Threads publicity and success to market their alternative to Twitter

edit: their website doesn't even exist lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://threads.cloud/press-release-threads-software-limited-gives-metas-instagram-30-days-to-desist-from-using-the-service-name-threads/

Here is their website. Yes they use it. Yes they have customers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it certainly looks real, then the article in the original post referred to wrong url