Lawyers representing Automattic, the for-profit founded by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, sent a trademark complaint letter to WordPress developer Kevin Geary, asking him to rebrand his WordPress CSS framework, which is currently named Automatic.css, claiming that the similarity to Mullenweg’s Automattic could lead to consumer confusion.
The letter caught some in the WordPress industry by surprise, since Geary had months ago shown good-faith compliance after Mullenweg tweeted a request for Geary to place a disclaimer in the footer of…








