Fountain pen drama

So, finally, the copyright/IP bullshit attitude in the fountain pen community is finally getting called out.

By a patent lawyer.

OMG. Finally.

Finally.

And this only because there were two utterly ridiculous blowups because major pen manufacturers tried to bully smaller pen companies by:

1. In Kaweco's case, abuse trademark laws and Majohn née Moonman didn't bother to fight it, even though they might have been able to overturn it by pointing to blatant trademark trolling (a practice where companies register a trademark without producing anything under said trademark solely for the sake of suing another company).

2. In TWSBI's case, straight up violate some anti-trust laws by trying to corner and monopolize the market.

I suspect these two companies figured they'll have enough support from the loud, obnoxious "but mah copyright" people to support their bullshit, but it seems like the community as a whole has finally listened to the patent lawyer that these companies are not above board and are not behaving ethically.

Which is not to say there isn't a substantial minority that are desperately trying to argue against a patent lawyer's reading on this situation while not knowing how patent laws work. So...yeah, the stupid continues.

I'm just happy this hobby sphere is finally getting bitch slapped with how little they understand IP/copyright/trademark/patent laws and how they've been conflating concepts and need to STFU.