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by waterdownship 2406 days ago
Trademarks are protected to prevent fraud and impersonation of other companies. So we don't want to accidentally mistake a e.g. gougle product as a google one. That was the very legal intention of trademark laws.

In the case of postwoman, it's kind of hard to imagine anyone would mistake it for postman. So it's unlikely postman would win a lawsuit against it.