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by binarysneaker 599 days ago
Nice tool. But marmite is a trademark, you may need to change it if Marmite claims infringement.
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Aren't trademarks attached to specific goods and services? In other words the trademark protecting the yeasty food spread based does not prevent someone from using the word for something like a record label: https://www.marmiterec.com or a static site generator.
That's right, but beware the relatively recent* legal innovation of trademark dilution: https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/trademark-dilution-intended.... This muddies the water.

*The US federal version of dilution law came into effect in the 1990s.

You will find out in court
Unless OP branches out into developing tasty spreads I don’t think there can be a trademark dispute
Tasty marmite would be a distinct product space free of trademark.
'Marmite' has been a word in the French dictionary for centuries though (French word for 'pot').