alt Hacker News>Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.”
What is wrong with these people?
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wmf • yesterday at 9:54 PM
That's how you can tell the article isn't giving you the full picture.
cheema33 • today at 4:31 AM
"Windows", "Word" and "Excel" are just plain English words, but it appears you can trademark them for specific industry. Maybe you have to make it more specific. Like "Microsoft Windows"?
I was curious what this meant, so I looked into it.
They asked Automatic.css to change their name: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1omrtrk/automatt...
Automatic.css is a paid CSS framework specifically for WordPress.
Legally speaking I have no opinion here, but I don't think it's as out-of-pocket as it sounds.