[otoburb]

The term "bubble wrap" looks like it is still trademarked[1], even though it's commonly used as a generic term. Hopefully this flies under Sealed Air's radar. I often wonder how far organizations will go to protect physical brands as the world rapidly digitizes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...

[galdosdi]

When you trademark a term, the trademark is usually scoped to a context (eg industry, product type). So, unrelated trademarks can exist with the same name, scoped to a different context.

See eg, https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-trademark-a-similar...

Of course, IANAL

[ashitlerferad]

Trademarks on inflated cushioning do not apply to software.

[icefox]

They should take the opportunity to change the project name to bwrap to match the fact that the application is not called bubblewrap, but bwrap.