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on Jan 21, 2018
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The city I write this in protected its name, so I ...
No. No intellectual property that works that way. Not patents, not copyright, not trademark, not trade secrets. The closest is ridiculous anti-dilution law for trademark, but trademarking a city/state name is generally a nonstarter.
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