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Ryan The head of the Foundation is also the millionaire CEO of Automattic – a company valued at $1-2 billion If the Foundations trademark claim was to fail, it could potentially cause problems for Automattics profits if other companies are allowed to legally offer hosted WordPress solutions with “WordPress” included in their domain names. A logical question to ask is why Matt decided to launch legal action against this guy, when plenty of others use WordPress in their domain name, or in product names like “WordPress SEO by Yoast” It’s purely because Yablon filed a notice of opposition to their trademark claim, so Matt retaliated by launching a law suit that threatens Yablon with financial ruin. It’s a clear attempt to scare Yablon – you drop your opposition to the trademark claim, we’ll drop our lawsuit against you. Matts lawyers must be concerned that there might be merit to Yablons opposition to their trademark claim, hence the use law suit as a scare tactic to get him to drop the opposition.
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The head of the Foundation is also the millionaire CEO of Automattic – a company valued at $1-2 billion
If the Foundations trademark claim was to fail, it could potentially cause problems for Automattics profits if other companies are allowed to legally offer hosted WordPress solutions with “WordPress” included in their domain names.
A logical question to ask is why Matt decided to launch legal action against this guy, when plenty of others use WordPress in their domain name, or in product names like “WordPress SEO by Yoast”
It’s purely because Yablon filed a notice of opposition to their trademark claim, so Matt retaliated by launching a law suit that threatens Yablon with financial ruin.
It’s a clear attempt to scare Yablon – you drop your opposition to the trademark claim, we’ll drop our lawsuit against you. Matts lawyers must be concerned that there might be merit to Yablons opposition to their trademark claim, hence the use law suit as a scare tactic to get him to drop the opposition.
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