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 FYI you can't trademark a name

http://nishani.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/what-can-i-trademark.png

colours, marks, special styles, at best, can't just be a word made in a commonly available font. AT ALL

so, yeah, BLOCK CLOCK and BLOCKCLOCK and GitHub and github and Git Hub and gitHub nope, cannot trademark these

why do you think that microsoft's logo looked like this for a very long time:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Microsoft_logo_%281987%29.svg/1280px-Microsoft_logo_%281987%29.svg.png

see the ligature between o and s?

devices... here is an example which you can read the word "DEVICE" on the fine print on any can or bottle of coca cola:

https://graphicdesignergeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/coke-3.png

it's not even the text that can be trademarked, it has to be something visual

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