Comment by jonas21

1 day ago

Look, I hate to be that guy, but according to your own comment [1], it sounds like you started this fight when you tried to block them from registering the "Deepki" trademark in the EU.

They were perfectly happy to coexist with your project -- and nobody was going to confuse "Deepkit", a TypeScript framework, with "Deepki", a real estate sustainability platform.

But then you tried to stop them from registering their own name (which they had been using for years before you started your project). Why would you do this? They responded by filing to invalidate your trademark, which, given the circumstances, seems pretty reasonable. In the end, they won.

You say that you registered a trademark so that you could "live peacefully." Perhaps the lesson to learn is if you want to live peacefully, don't go around picking fights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894521

To be honest, until reaching your comment this seemed like the small guy being bullied by the big bad corporation, but after looking at this, this does seem like the other company was quite polite or reasonable about this, while the small guy wanted really hard to get into a "fight".