PornHub owner MindGeek is threatening a kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement::If you’ve been listening to the Vergecast you know the standard for trademark infringement is “likelihood of confusion,” and while it’s true the Hub is known for ⚫️🟠, something tells me the folks walking into Doner Haus aren’t confused about what’s on the menu. Full story in Chelsea News, a hyperlocal NYC news site, via Verge pal Alexandra Roberts.

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    1 year ago

    Trademark’s a weird one, if you don’t defend it you lose it. So it’s kind of a lose-lose situation from the trademarkers position. They have to pursue or they lose their trademark which they value

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        Yeah but if you don’t sue, a legitimate infringer in the future might use not enforcing on the trademark there to argue there own case. Trademark law really doesn’t leave trademark holders in a good position. Though I imagine that a lawsuit when those laws were written weren’t nearly as prohibitively expensive.

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        Pretty sure it would have to be determined in a court of law that an infringement occurred in the first place.

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      As a non-American, US intellectual property law feels absolutely ridiculous to me sometimes. It feels like it incentivizes all the wrong behaviours.

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        It’s hard to balance but it prevents trademark squatters from existing like in the domain name space

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      😂 I get why PornHub needs to defend it’s TM, but that is hilarious and if I owned PornHub I would consider that free advertising.

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        I’m not defending PornHub hear, but sometimes you don’t want to leave associatable stuff up simply because you font know if they might do something stupid and harm their brand. Like if it turned out heavy sexual harassment/assault was happening at PrawnHub and it gets found out; now people might associate that with PornHub, especially with the sexual aspect.

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      German döner are actually Turkish. Germany has a massive Turkish population. It’s so large they have areas in some cities that are primarily Turkish. Even the Turkish president broadcasts to the German Turkish community at times as he knows how influential they are.

      All this to say, a German döner is a Turkish one, albeit probably adjusted to German tastes.

      Have I had one? Yes, many. Are they good? Definitely.

      However, I like the Australian variety just as much, but they are definitely same same different.

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        That is only partly true. The Döner Kebab was invented in Berlin (by a guy with Turkish origen). Due to the high Turkish population in Germany there are tons of Döner Shops and it is actually much easier to find a Döner in Germany than in Turkey.

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          It is also where the best Döner is found. The Picture of this NYC Kebab did not make me want to get one. Looked way too thin and i dont get the packaging. I want my Kebab to be rolled into alumium foil and it needs to have sexy curves because of how stuffed the Döner is.

          Excuse me, i have go get one right now.

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    “Restaurant selling badly-packed-kebabs, is sued by content host showing videos of badly-packed-kebabs” The irony…

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    All I’m getting out of this is it’s potentially possible to get doner kebab in the US, and I should take a trip to New York

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      They have a lot of gyros that aren’t gyros and are actually turks doing kebabs so there might be more than you think

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      We used to have a pretty good German street food restaurant in Fresno of all places. They had a pretty awesome döner. Unfortunately that only lasted like 2 years before closing.

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        I live in a doner desert. I mean, there are places that CLAIM to have doner kebab around here, but they have apparently never been to Germany. There’s something so perfect about Turkish food with heavy German influence that I haven’t been able to find anywhere outside of Germany.

        I’m glad you had two years of joy in Fresno, but sorry about the closure

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        Yeah, but is it comparable to German doner kebab?

        There’s ten places with that in the name where I live, and all of them are pretending to be doner kebab

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    There is a gas station in Iowa that uses the same logo. I think it’s called like 1Nine or something like that.