Comments on: Adobe protects Flash trademark, but at what cost?

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:08 +0000

I think you are probably right.

By: mpc

mpc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:00:14 +0000

In my opinion Adobe wants to extend their marketplace and they will sell Flash files so the first think to do is to get rid of competitors.

By: Wyvie

Wyvie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:40:48 +0000

Reminds me so much of when Virgin bashed their way through Australia (perhaps they did the whole world at the same time), destroying any company that had “Virgin” in the name. They ended up forcing renames of any company in Aus that started after Virgin did, even though it was a very long time before it became a known name over here. Car yards, chocolate manufacturers, all fell before the might that is an American company who thinks they run the world.

What gets me the most is that Flashkit and Flashearth and all those other places that come up earlier in Google searches seem to have been left alone.

By: flashmad

flashmad — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:46:19 +0000

lol my domain is flashmadblog . will they kick my ass??

By: Iulian

Iulian — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:55:33 +0000

If the word “Flash” is a trademark, then couldn’t Envato have used the work “flash” to make “flashden” or “flashDen” ?

If “flash” is a common English word, it cannot possibly be restricted.

By: giuseppe

giuseppe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:40:29 +0000

words are free.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:47:52 +0000

Kires, I think you are right,but maybe there is more to it. Its been suggested that they attacked the Air sites because they were competing with their own marketplace. Maybe Adobe wants to get into selling Flash stock files.

By: kires

kires — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:27:52 +0000

It’s plain stupid. And all of this after they’ve been using Flashden files: http://blog.flashden.net/general/adobecom-use-flashden-product/

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:01:19 +0000

Bob – that`s what I meant be “sway” and Adobe acting as the 800lb gorilla.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:20 +0000

“Clearly the Adobe legal team has enough sway to make these sites change names – without much resistance.”

you front up the legal costs and I’m sure they’ll be happy to resist.