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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
Last year in my area, a food truck decided to call itself Leggo My Egg Roll, and obvious play on Eggo waffles tagline.

Kellogg sent them a cease and desist, they decided to ignore it. Kellogg then offered to pay them to rebrand, they still wouldn’t.

They then sued for $15 million.

>>mattma+eC
...and then what happened?

>>clarkm+pE
Good question

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/kellogg-leggo-my-eggro...

>>Barbin+dG
Could they have gotten around this by actually serving Eggo waffles? Would that have then fallen under nominative fair use?

>>z2+CF1
I doubt it, no. I couldn’t go buy Taco Bell sauce at the store, serve it at my restaurant, and call my restaurant Taco Bell.

They could probably mention it on their menu.

>>mattma+eN1
I'm guessing (NAL) that would actually make it worse. Trademark violation revolves around brand confusion. If you actually serve their product you are making that _much_ more likely (in my uninformed opinion anyway).

Otherwise it's a standalone argument about a stupid pun applied to food in general.