Is it common to use the word "patent troll" to describe any type of legal troll nowadays? Just wondering because as far as I know there are no patents involved here, just a trademark.
Should simply be, "Troll".
Trademarks and patents are two different things.
Obviously. Let's say Trademarks trolls,
I simply used their own term.
If we are going down THAT road, it's "IP Trolls" then.
I thought that Patent Trolls are the ones that just buy up patents and then go hunting to violators while they themselves do not actually make anything that uses the patents. That is shitty to do. I would imagine that Trademark Trolls and IP Trolls would be the same type of thing. This is not that. They have a Trademark on the product they are actively developing/selling/whatever and are trying to defend it. NOW... they are shit bags for thinking the other dude is violating their mark but that is a whole different thing.
How are they are a trademark troll for defending their trademark against a similar sounding name ?
Yes. WhosHere's answer starts with "We are not patent trolls". They should clearly change it to trademark.
But really their gripe seems to be with borrowing the app concept which they agreed to. But they can only defend their trademark.