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"Windows Portable Apps" and "Cool Browsers Apps" develop Useful Apps for Windows, Android and Web Browsers that Increase the Daily Productivity of many People. (If you love "#Simplicity, #Functionality and #Productivity", then our Apps are a #Must for you!)
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Third Circuit:

"Some candy companies evoke [a slice of watermelon] by using colors alone, making their candies red, white, and green. But the watermelon effect is significantly stronger if the red-white-and-green candy is shaped like a wedge. Because the tricolored shape is recognizable as watermelon flavored, the whole appearance is useful. So a candy-maker cannot block competitors from using the combined shape and colors...."

scribd.com/document/669963154/

I'm surprised there's no #Fediverse #project I can find which will collect updates from several Fediverse projects and collate them into a single timeline.

If I were to write a #blog post on WriteFreely, this Collator would post something like "@HaelusNovak just #published 'Why I will never date a human-sized prawn again!' on #WriteFreely" with a little link.

Now, my first stumbling block is that this would be helpful for the individual, but #followers wouldn't care. There'd be no point to comments, since you can go to WF to comment and follow. Also, it could otherwise steal #activity from WF, leading to it's decay.

One potential #functionality could include one way to associate a user across several platforms, so you could get to know them better, more dynamically (as they see fit). This would require some sort of link from individual platform profiles to the Collator to really make it easier for followers.

I'm not a project #dev, I'm just thinking out loud. 🤔

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What pisses me off the most about #windows11 and #nvida drivers is that after every #update or #upgrade, the fucking #guis look different but the #functionality is THE #same! Here's windows 11 at work...you know most of the relevant commands but now you can't do it because the interface looks like an #imac from the early days. Happy father's day you stupid stupid stupid software assholes! And don't get me started with #google and #android. My #phone was so #fast when I bought it. Now its shit.

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Little Leaf's VP of marketing said that the shape is "due to a type of seed that has the inherent ability to grow into a curly lettuce, which is then nurtured with a particular recipe of natural light, moisture, nutrients, and custom-built greenhouses."

fastcompany.com/90894369/can-y

So, basically, they want to use trademark law monopolize a certain method of growing this particular type of seed.

That's not what trademark law is supposed to do.

DayCab Co., Inc. v. Prairie Tech., LLC, No. 22-5625 (6th Cir. 2023): New case trade dress case discussing, inter alia, the functionality of "conversion kits for tractor-trailer cabs that convert a sleeper tractor—which has a compartment designed for long-haul driving, with a sleeping unit for the driver—into a tractor that does not have a sleeper unit" opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.

#TradeDress #Functionality

Here's some context from the district court's decision: storage.courtlistener.com/reca