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I wish they would at least rename the company to "ClosedAI" because that's exactly what it is at this point.


Unfortunately, that's not how trademarks work.

You can name your company "ThisProductWillCureYouFromCancer" and the FDA cannot do a thing about it if you put it on a bottle of herbal pills.


Is this true? If so it seems like an underexploited loophole.


It might be technically true, but I don't think it would be true in practice. The difference is that:

- Technically true means you will probably win any lawsuit they bring

- In practice means that they will in fact bring a lot of lawsuits, making it very expensive for you and difficult for you to operate. They will probably find excuses to harass you over every little thing, they will harass you over lots of details that are technically required but rarely enforced in practice. You'll constantly be getting inspected and audited, they will bring lawsuits for other, apparently unrelated things.


That would be a nice thing they could do.




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