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Be careful, you might be running into trademark violations with the popular note-taking app Bear. Seems like both fall in similar genres.


I don't think you can trademark a generic work like "Bear" .. so long as the author isn't using the logos from that app or conflating its brand, it should be fine (IANAL)


You absolutely can trademark a generic word for specific circumstances. That’s why I can’t set up a computer shop called Apple. It was also the subject of many lawsuits between Apple Computers and Apple Records.




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