Why are Nodejitsu registering the npm trademark

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46 points·voidfiles··7 comments

So Isaac Schlueter's new company, npm Inc, takes VC and then starts sending out legal threats immediately. nodejitsu decides to play that game and points out that it's been working on the npm trademark which, if granted, would likely force Isaac's new company to change it name.

Am I understanding this all correctly?

I can't see how any of this good for the node community, but then again I couldn't see how npm, Inc was good for the node community either.

No, you are not understanding this all correctly. By the time our lawyers got involved, I had already tried at length to reach resolution amicably.

You're seeing a small piece of a conversation taken out of context. Also, they filed the trademark the day before that letter was sent, so it could not have been "in response"

I can't help feel this was partly fueled by npm Inc asking Arnout Kazemier (Nodejitsu's Lead Software Engineer - https://www.nodejitsu.com/company/) to change the name of his package from npmjs to something else. (https://medium.com/p/271013ff33c5)

The trademark filing happened 2 weeks before my request for Arnout to rename his module.

While it makes me sad that this is happening, this actually makes me believe that Node must be valuable now that the sharks are coming out. The question is - will this harm the community or will it make it be stronger? Also - why is there not a similar lawsuit for "node" part of nodejitsu?

Mikeal wrote a response here: https://gist.github.com/mikeal/9242748.

So much drama though, I can barely piece together what's going on.

Nodejitsu pulling an Oracle.

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