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by jessaustin 4252 days ago
Then any parasitism is restricted to trademarks rather than trade secrets, patents, etc. Who cares about trademarks?
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After giving this some more thought, it's no longer clear to me that a simple {vendor, product} id pair is even "protected" by trademark. It would be protected by contract terms, especially if at some point in the supply chain someone had signed a contract with USB-IF. However it's quite clear that no entity is entitled to commit vandalism in order to enforce contract terms for a contract to which that entity is not even a party.