<story><title>A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)</title><url>http://news.fiftythree.com/post/75486632209/every-story-has-a-name-fiftythrees-story-began?new_url=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>Insofar as FiftyThree is merely making a polite request as a matter of professional courtesy rather than threatening legal action, then I don&amp;#x27;t think your criticism applies. They didn&amp;#x27;t get nasty about it, they didn&amp;#x27;t cite some bizarre legal arguments where they claimed to forever own the word Paper. They just made a cordial request. I think that&amp;#x27;s entirely reasonable and makes them come across very good in this situation.</text></item><item><author>petenixey</author><text>Pfft. What a silly request. This is an entirely different application.&lt;p&gt;Should we expect an upcoming blog post from 53 complaining that Crayola has released a new product entitled &amp;quot;Pencil&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;If you want to protect your name, use a protectable name. If you&amp;#x27;re going to use an entirely generic name then deal with it... wait hang on... Dunder Mifflin just called... they want their name back too.&lt;p&gt;Cool company, great products, daft blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pron</author><text>Making a cordial request about it to Facebook is one thing; publicizing it (probably in an effort to shame Facebook) is another.</text></comment>
<story><title>A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)</title><url>http://news.fiftythree.com/post/75486632209/every-story-has-a-name-fiftythrees-story-began?new_url=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>Insofar as FiftyThree is merely making a polite request as a matter of professional courtesy rather than threatening legal action, then I don&amp;#x27;t think your criticism applies. They didn&amp;#x27;t get nasty about it, they didn&amp;#x27;t cite some bizarre legal arguments where they claimed to forever own the word Paper. They just made a cordial request. I think that&amp;#x27;s entirely reasonable and makes them come across very good in this situation.</text></item><item><author>petenixey</author><text>Pfft. What a silly request. This is an entirely different application.&lt;p&gt;Should we expect an upcoming blog post from 53 complaining that Crayola has released a new product entitled &amp;quot;Pencil&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;If you want to protect your name, use a protectable name. If you&amp;#x27;re going to use an entirely generic name then deal with it... wait hang on... Dunder Mifflin just called... they want their name back too.&lt;p&gt;Cool company, great products, daft blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Touche</author><text>I disagree. They&amp;#x27;re trying to shame others into giving in to them owning the word &amp;quot;paper&amp;quot;.</text></comment>