There have been some insanely aggressive trademark cases in the US too. The University of Kentucky sued a small moonshine distiller for selling t-shirts that had the word ‘Kentucky’ printed on them.[0] That’s it, having the name of the state they resided in was enough to trigger Kentucky athletics.<p>The shirts weren’t trying to knock off or reference Kentucky Athletics in any way, but that didn’t stop UK from putting legal resources behind their effort. Yet another example of how the legal system is built for the rich.<p>0: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/us/-legal-moonshiner-and-university-battle-over-rights-to-kentucky.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/us/-legal-moonshiner-and-...</a>
1. It's a trademark issue, not copyright.<p>2. Don't companies have an obligation to defend their trademark or risk not being able to defend them in the future?
On a tangent here, a bit over 20 years ago I used to work for a guy who registered "boss.com.xx" (where xx is a country TLD I won't detail) because that was the name of his publishing company here. This was still dialup/ISDN days for most small companies over here.<p>He held on to it for a long time, but I noticed in the last couple of years that it now redirects to www.hugoboss.com. Knowing this particular person I am fairly sure that he would have sold it to them for a pretty penny.