Embracing a new identity as Bloom Institute of Technology

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This is transparently a response to all of the negative publicity they’ve received. Understandable. When students google for Lambda School the SEO returns all the recent bad news items.

It might work.

Or... the result of a settlement of a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against Lambda School by Lambda Labs..

I'm neither a Lambda School hater nor a patent lawyer, but it seems a little far-fetched to me that a company can lay claim to a letter of the Greek alphabet. I wonder if the settlement made Lambda School's name change absolutely necessary, or if it simply provided convenient cover

I'm sure DEC back in the day would have had a valid claim against another chip maker using "Alpha", or Delta against another airline, or Omega against another watchmaker.

Companies have trademarks that are single Greek letters. I guess the question is: did Lambda School's line of business overlap Lambda Labs'? At first blush I don't think so. One is a school and the other is in hardware. But I'm also no lawyer so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're looking for a trademark lawyer, not a patent one.

They payback failing _graduates_. While this seems fine and dandy: how many fail before graduation? -- just call it "gaming the onus".

How long until they come up with their own coin & ICO-- Bloom Institute Tech Coin? It probably won't be as onerous as most ISAs, at that.

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