[HN Gopher] Embracing a new identity as Bloom Institute of Techn...
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       Embracing a new identity as Bloom Institute of Technology
        
       Author : flipchart
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-11-16 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | thenanyu wrote:
       | This is transparently a response to all of the negative publicity
       | they've received. Understandable. When students google for Lambda
       | School the SEO returns all the recent bad news items.
       | 
       | It might work.
        
         | nickphx wrote:
         | Or... the result of a settlement of a trademark infringement
         | lawsuit brought against Lambda School by Lambda Labs..
        
           | threevox wrote:
           | I'm neither a Lambda School hater nor a patent lawyer, but it
           | seems a little far-fetched to me that a company can lay claim
           | to a letter of the Greek alphabet. I wonder if the settlement
           | made Lambda School's name change absolutely necessary, or if
           | it simply provided convenient cover
        
             | function_seven wrote:
             | I'm sure DEC back in the day would have had a valid claim
             | against another chip maker using "Alpha", or Delta against
             | another airline, or Omega against another watchmaker.
             | 
             | Companies have trademarks that are single Greek letters. I
             | guess the question is: did Lambda School's line of business
             | overlap Lambda Labs'? At first blush I don't think so. One
             | is a school and the other is in hardware. But I'm also no
             | lawyer so -\\_(tsu)_/-
        
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