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Hi, I am changing my name to distant-uncle and embarking on a public campaign of cat torturing all across America. Is that acceptable?


Lol that would be highly unethical. More seriously though, names are not people. Corporations are people, my friend. Oh and lastly, I do tend to think that on the basis of defamation alone, a reasonable argument for trademarks could be made. Nothing even remotely close to this argument exists for patents.




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