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

[Chip Bennett]

Dunno. Looks like legitimate collateral use to me: the Google service is
integrated in a larger project/application. But again, IANAL.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Joni Mueller <joni at jonimueller.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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
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