Terminix renamed to Tilix

Gerald via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Mar 20 14:59:40 PDT 2017


On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 17:25:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 16:56:02 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>> Terminix, a Linux GTK3 tiling terminal emulator written in D, 
>> has been renamed to Tilix due to trademark infringement issues 
>> with the Terminix International corporation.
>
> I'm sure you don't want the hassle, but you might be able to 
> fight and win that, since you are in completely different 
> industries, there isn't much room for reasonably confusion with 
> their trademark.
>
> oh well though, at least it redirects all the old  stuff to you 
> still.

The defence would be dilution of trademark which allows you to 
contest un-related infringements. However you are quire right in 
that I don't feel like dealing with the hassle. :)


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