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It was, of course, just an interesting coincidence but I used it as an excuse to accuse them of brand hijacking. Wouldn’t you? So we’re literally moving toward the White House getting an IP license from me.

I'm not a lawyer, but hasn't he just effectively torpedoed his legal case for accusing the White House of anything to do with brand hijacking?




Neither am I a lawyer, but I'd look at it this way: suppose I had never heard of Google or Android, and I tried to name a new operating system "Android" purely by coincidence.

They could still sue me, couldn't they?


Given his writings on this subject in the past, I think he's really using it as an excuse to have a dialog with the White House on how to help startups. How else could he have gotten their attention?




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