[wp-forums] Whomever edited GoogleTrademarks's post...

[Joni Mueller]

So what on earth name should these plugins be given since Google seems to be hamstringing everyone? This makes my head hurt! :)

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Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Whomever edited GoogleTrademarks's post...

While I (IANAL) find the "market confusion" claim to be dubious, and the
claim of trademark infringement to be specious (there is no commerce
involved in WPORG-hosted Plugins, and as far as I know, Google has no
competing commercial WordPress Plugins), the use of acronyms is explicitly
prohibited in Google's Trademark usage policy:
http://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/rules.html