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My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.


The word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked.

I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg

A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...


Why not?

If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.



Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider.

I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are




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