| Lawyer in training here! Trademarks do get grouped into classes (the so called "Nice Classification", like the French city [0]). The classes are very detailed, and the first 34 refer to "Goods", the rest to "Services". Specifically class 9 refers to (among many other things), "computers, computer software", class 42 to "design and development of computer hardware and software". However those are mostly just to simplify searching for and dealing with the huge amount of trademarks. Each trademark comes with its own list of goods and services it's supposed to cover. Their trademark in the UK [1] covers "computer software, software and apparatus for the extraction of business information and knowledge". They also appear to have registered a trademark this september [2] with a much broader scope, so after Meta started using threads. I'm not familiar with UK law and how it relates to trademarks in this case, however. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classific...
[1]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00...
[2]: https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00... |