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by slimsag 962 days ago
It's a solved problem, and it's called trademark law / a wordmark.
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Well it’s certainly not solved by trademark law for me, a lowly software engineer, trying to pick a rememberable name for my open source project that’ll maybe grow into something bigger someday.
If you’ve been through the process of naming something that is safe for trademark purposes then you might think we’re beyond unique names for things. We’re out of options.