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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Im not sure they are overstepping, they are required to pursue each thing that could be perceived as a violation of their trademark lest it be considered unenforced. Really I doubt this is going anywhere, Im sure that SPARC will "work out a deal" with SFE. Right now they might just be jumping through hoops. Of course, I know next to nothing about this sort of stuff, I just assume that people behave semi logically.
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I was going to post the same thing. The issue here is that if they DON'T aggressive pursue every issue like this one, then they set a precedent. It's one of the terms of the law involved that they must pursue people who they believe are infringing or they may lose the rights to the name.