I assume Affinity Client Services would also protest multiple letters, e.g. “lambda lambda lambda”, to keep control over sorority/fraternity names.
Is it actually legal to trademark a class of words in this way? Do they have legal right to prevent me from registering a student organization with a name that consists of three unique greek letters?
"It originally was designated as the "Porsche 901" (901 being its internal project number). A total of 82 cars were built as which were badged as 901s.[7] However, French automobile manufacturer Peugeot protested on the grounds that in France it had exclusive rights to car names formed by three numbers with a zero in the middle. Instead of selling the new model with a different name in France, Porsche changed the name to 911"
Is it? Or is it a mechanism of preemptive enforcement put in place in response to past action by ACS or some generally applicable legal rule requiring preemptive presumptive enforcement of known trademarks on platforms, hence the reference to Spring’s “legal obligations to protect the assets of Affinity Client Services” in the letter from legal?