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Huh. This isn’t some dirtbag domain squatter, either. This is a ten year old company with a serious, legitimate claim. Plus, their services are easily similar enough to create marketplace confusion, which is a major factor in trademark cases.
This doesn’t help, either:
Zuck fucked up.
He didn't "fuck up" so much as think he was big enough to bully the legal issue away.
They did it with the word "meta" here's hoping they don't get away with it a second time.
Did they really get away with it? It seems like they shot themselves in the foot with pointless rebranding and their sad attempts at whatever the metaverse is. In the end they lost a ton of money
Legally, yes.
In every other sense? Fuck no.
In the case of Meta, they acquired a small company with that name many years before. Makes me wonder if they also bought something called Threads before.
Like others have said, the Zuck probably thinks he can lawyer his way through it. He could try to bleed the company dry over a long set of proceedings, hoping they decide to settle, somehow.