Trademarks are a useful tool when people try to do affinity scams or other things.

This is none of that. This is just abuse of the law (with most likely no legal basis either) to take down competitors. 

 What do you mean with «useful tool for affinity scams or other things»? 

 If someone pretends they are affiliated with your product for example when they are not, for example.

Or when someone tries to use your branding for their own product that you don’t endorse. 

 That makes sense. If your summary is true, it seems more like a hit to stiffle competition. 

 You may read the original takedown notice here

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 Probably went to the Peter Thiel Libertarian Academy… 

 Nothing new. Always has been. 

 This has been the attitude of CK forever. And it is why they sell non open source products. 

I will never do business with them.

Simple solution.

When the #BTClock repo is respected I will build one just for spite. lol. 

 so did anyone ever clone or check out that repository? it's git, there must be copies, right?