“as you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services, including the very popular web building and hosting platform wordpress.com,” jim davis, an intellectual property attorney representing automattic, wrote in a letter dated oct Automattic has filed counterclaims against wp engine, alleging that the company — backed by private equity firm silver lake — misused wordpress and woocommerce trademarks, misled users, and. An anonymous reader shares a report
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This conflict centers on automattic’s claim to the word ‘automatic,’ demanding that geary rebrand his product
The move comes amid a backdrop of escalating tensions in the wordpress ecosystem, raising questions about trademark overreach and the boundaries of intellectual property in tech.
