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John McAfee Can Finally Use His Own Name Again (fossbytes.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the call-me-John dept.

An anonymous reader quotes Fossbytes: It was last year when, John McAfee, the co-founder of an antivirus company that's now owned by Intel, took Intel to the court over the right to use his name for commercial purposes... According to a Reuters report, the US District Judge Paul Oetken has dismissed the 2016 case and the counter lawsuit filed by Intel. The two parties have settled upon a mutual agreement which allows John Mcafee to use his name for promotions, presentations, and advertisements. He can't link his name to any product or service related to cyber security and security.
McAfee told the BBC that he can't directly name a company after himself, adding "I can live with that. That certainly beats having to live with 'The Entrepreneur Formerly known as McAfee.'"

Johnny Depp is still scheduled to play McAfee in a movie called "King of the Jungle," which will focus on the period of his life when McAfee fled a police investigation in Belize.

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  1. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dell
    Black & Decker
    Ford
    Chrysler
    DuPont
    Eli Lilly
    Glock
    Harley Davidson
    Hewlett Packard
    JC Penney
    Sears
    Levi Strauss
    McDonalds
    Porsche
    Daimler-Benz
    DeLorean
    Lamborghini
    Ferrari
    Honda
    Kawasaki
    Peugeot
    Renault
    Proctor and Gamble
    Rolls Royce
    Mazda
    Toyota
    Suzuki
    Walt Disney

  2. I have a better name for the movie... by dyfet · · Score: 2

    Fear and Loathing in Belize.

  3. Re: Only an idiot would use their name for Company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    FSF GNU would have been a success if only Mr Richard Stallman had named the company Dick Stall Man and the product Glory Hole.

  4. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You don't have to use the name for the company... From: Bully Hill Vineyards - Heritage, which was founded by Walter S. Taylor, whose grandfather started the Taylor Wine Company:

    Everything suddenly changed in 1977 when Coca-Cola acquired Taylor Wine. One morning Walter came into work to discover that they had filed an injunction against him and Bully Hill Vineyards— preventing him from using the word “Taylor” on anything related to Bully Hill. Walter, believing that no one had the right to take his name from him quickly appealed but could not win against the behemoth legal team assembled against him.

    In the end he was ordered to follow a list of stipulations dictating what he could and couldn’t “say” when it came to his name and ancestry. The list banned Walter:

    • From using the word “Taylor” on anything relating to Bully Hill. Period.
    • From implying that Bully Hill was connected to or the successor of Taylor Wine. It is very important to remember that Walter from birth was entrenched in everything Taylor Wine and that he and his father started Bully Hill together to continue the winemaking traditions of his family.
    • From implying that Bully Hill Vineyards was the original Taylor Wine Company. Bully Hill does sit on the original site Walter’s grandfather purchased in the late eighteen hundreds.
    • From implying that any of Walter’s ancestors are or were connected to Bully Hill Vineyards. Walter’s father was, in fact, a co-founder of Bully Hill Vineyards.
    • From implying that Walter’s ancestors passed ANYTHING on to him in the art of winemaking or grape growing. Walter was a 4th generation Taylor family winemaker and grape grower, by definition his ancestors passed on their knowledge and skills on to him.
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  5. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot: Trump

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  6. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by Gay+Boner+Sex · · Score: 2

    And General Electric. ;)

    --GBS

  7. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by KiloByte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd go with Horch. It's founder, August Horch, got ousted from his company. A court ruled that he doesn't own the rights to his name, thus he named the next company Audi (Latin translation of "Horch" ("listen")).

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  8. Why? by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    McAfee the product sucks bigly. He should change his name to avoid association.

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  9. Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company by DeBaas · · Score: 2

    And General Electric. ;)

    --GBS

    Although when they were a startup it was still called Colonel Electric...

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  10. Re:not much seems to have changed by SuricouRaven · · Score: 2

    He has clear rules now saying what he can and cannot use his name for. That's an improvement over having to live with the constant threat of legal action if the new owners decide he broke a rule they invented on the spot.