I am not sure which way this will go, but WPE's website was using the word "Word...

diggan · 2024-10-04T17:57:12.000000Z

> but WPE's website was using the word "WordPress" in every possible way before they 'cleaned it up' a few days ago

https://wpengine.com/ mentions "wordpress" 56 times today.

And here is the website from a month ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20240903110405/https://wpengine...., still 56 times "wordpress" is mentioned.

Looks mostly the same to me, at least compared to a month ago.

joshbetz · 2024-10-03T21:45:54.000000Z

I’m not a lawyer, but why would they remove uses of WordPress from their website right before suing Automattic if their position is that they weren’t violating the trademark?

klelatti · 2024-10-03T21:54:48.000000Z

That’s easy - limiting potential liability if they lose. It’s not an admission of guilt though.

klelatti · 2024-10-03T21:44:51.000000Z

Fair enough - I can see there are limits but the material in Automattic’s lawsuit didn’t seem that problematic. Not sure how the law can distinguish between ok and too much use of ‘WordPress’.

blackqueeriroh · 2024-10-04T04:11:52.000000Z

This is exactly what trademark law is set up to do: https://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement