Quoted from Black_Knight:Don’t feel bad I just got a cease and desist letter because my wife used # Barcade on instagram a few times.
Seriously?? For a hashtag?? I hope you told them to fuck right off.
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Quoted from EternitytoM83:Yep, and they seem to have people whose job is to watch social media and send C&D's to anyone who uses it as a hashtag.
He can't, they have the actual hashtag trademarked.
https://trademarks.justia.com/874/23/barcade-87423823.html
Well shit, feels like a word that would already be too diluted to be used as a specific trademark. Would take a case against them to change anything though.
Quoted from pins4u:I doubt they could make it stick in court BUT do you want to be the one to test that?
Sometimes I wish I had unlimited funds to spend just to test stupid things like this.....
I told my wife about this story and she had no idea what a Barcade was. I was a bit shocked…
But that means it’s not a word everyone knows and uses regularly so a court wouldn’t give a shit - even if I had the resources and reasons to file a case.
Quoted from LORDDREK:In this case (and many others) I don’t think the issue is what the courts think. It’s how much do you want to spend to find out?
Well that’s always the way but you don’t even stand a chance if you have no case to begin with.
My initial reaction was barcade is too common of a word but my SO proved that wrong real quick 
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