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by Macha 1717 days ago
As Intel found out when they were unable to stop AMD naming their Intel 486 compatible CPU Am486, there's a certain threshold of creativity a name has to reach for trademark protection.

These short letter/number sequences aren't it.

Smaller companies than Cloudflare have used similar naming for S3 compatible services without issue, see Backblaze B2