[kevin_thibedeau]

Trademarks only apply within a common industry. Kik the company isn't in the business of creating NPM packages. It's perfectly legal to use the same name for something unrelated to messaging even after the founding date of the commercial entity.

[allover]

I'm not arguing what's legal. If your package name is a trademark, thinking you're entitled to hang on to it is naive. This is well understand with domains, so why do you think a package registry should be different?