Jack Dorsey’s Square is changing its name to Block

They absolutely should never be granted trademarks on such common words in the first place. The intellectual property system has become another example of regulatory capture, ready to be abused by those with deepest pockets.

Likely, if their systems cause blockages or they keep blocking payments.

Outside of HN I have never heard anybody reference Square. Compare to Facebook which is hard to not hear about as their rivals angrily spam incoherent hit pieces. That may be his advantage however - while everyone called and still calls Twitter trash from just its restrictive character limit there isn't such a personal hatred to Dorsey. Unlike Zuckerberg he doesn't have a sizable deranged "secretly an evil android or robot" brigade repeating a variant of the "stab in the back" myth.

Programmers rarely change codebase names when corporate names change - it has a huge cost for almost no benefit. That's why so many of Apple's Objective-C class names start with NS - which is for NextStep, the company Apple acquired in the mid 90s.

Find and replace wouldn't be that bad with 'Square' I feel like, I don't think you use the word 'Square' too often while programming, if the company was named ';' or 'def' then id just find another job.

Better spell it as bloc to manage local susceptibilities.

Hilarious that they're using squarespace for that instead of their own product, Weebly.