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>>philip+(OP)
The way trademarks work is that if you don't actively defend them you weaken your rights. So Anthropic needs to defend their ownership of "Claude". I'm guessing they reached out to Peter Steinberger and asked nicely that he rename Clawdbot.

>>putlak+hv
Of course Anthropic has the most obnoxious legal team of all the ai companies. The project got traction under the older name. A name change does hurt the project.

>>kaycey+1I1
It's not about obnoxiousness or morality.

They HAVE to defend their trademark or they'll lose it by default.

The law pretty much goes "if you don't care about it, you don't need it anymore".