Groupon Is Stealing the GNOME Trademark

Posted by thesilviu on Nov 11, 2014 10:07 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Getting a trademark for something will not shield you from abusive behavior from big companies, and the GNOME Foundation is learning this the hard way. The company behind Groupon is trying to steal the GNOME trademark for a tablet they are developing.

News about Groupon making a tablet called Gnome has been circulating for some months now, but it hasn't been taken all that seriously. In fact, very little was known about the tablet itself and there was no reason to think that it would have any kind of success. Well, the tablet is a flop (for merchants and businesses), as you would expect, but Groupon is now looking to steal the GNOME trademark from the GNOME Foundation.

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