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Old 09-10-2025, 08:16 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Paul, Bionic is a word, Reading is a word.
The reason Intel switched to the made up word PENTIUM was 80486 could not be trademarked in the USA. (I believe this applies to any common dictionary words)

I do agree that while that page may have unenforceable clauses, MR not having to deal with the nasty letters is the way to go.
I only haven't deleted this post because you're not JSWolf.

You're entirely correct that Bionic and Reading are ordinary words and it would be difficult to get a trademark for them individually.

Bionic Reading, however, as a two-word phrase has been granted a trademark. In exactly which territories and in what business context I haven't bothered to look up. But it seems to me that it's entirely possibly that it's enforceable in a court of law, and the OP was very sensible not to use that for their plugin's name.

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