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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.

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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.

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