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by sorbus 5461 days ago
While I'm not in any way a lawyer, that's the advice I'd give too. There seems to be little potential for confusion between a TV platform and a social network (trademarks are within a field of business, so two different trademarks could use the same name as long as they're in distinct fields with little chance of confusion, as I understand it), so yeah.
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trademarks are within a field of business, so two different trademarks could use the same name as long as they're in distinct fields with little chance of confusion

I was thinking the 'field of business' would be mobile app development but my mobile app uses a different name so theoretically if the above statement is true I should be OK. Thanks for the feedback!