Are they doing the same thing or something similar? The possibility of confusion exists...if you have copyrights on your name and predate them you might have a case (if you decide to spend the money on lawyers). Cheapest way out of it is find a new name IMHO.

I'm not impressed. Is there an equivalent list of YC companies?

There may be an official list somewhere, but Wikipedia has a decent list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator#Portfolio

Where are you located? You can give my patent atty (and friend) a call, I've used him for 10+ years and done at least 10 applications with him. His name is David Powsner with Nutter, McCellan in Boston.(http://www.nutter.com/attorneys.php?AttorneyID=110). Great guy, friendly and very knowledgeable. If you do email him, tell him chandra referred you.

in Boston, thanks for the referral... I'll shoot him an email now...

How does ebay fit into it? I see the CL part on OLX

I wouldn't give up until you've tried everything you possibly can to make it a success.

huh?

It was great..350+ people. Didn't see any YC folks though :-(

Anyone want to meetup at the next Tues May 22 WebInnovators conference at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge (6:30-9pm)? There are about 150+ people that attend, so I recommend we put a YC on the nametags to identify ourselves. The event is free, but you should RSVP at: http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/

How about putting news.yc on the nametags so as not to be confused with real YC people.

What, no secret handshake?

Any plans for another one next month?

Very cool....I've got an Apple Lisa-1 sitting next to my..First TRS-80 Model III, Commodore PET 2001 (8K RAM), Atari 800, Apple II+, KIM-1...I keep one Lisa at work to show the newbie programmers at work what we have today existed back in 1982. The Lisa was away head of it's time (yet a huge financial failure for Apple) - 32 bit 68000 processor (5Mhz) - 1MB RAM (Very expensive for 1982) - Virtual Memory and Multitasking OS - Integrated Applications (btw it also has cut & paste) - Screen Saver (Dimmer really) - Intelligent Power-switch (Puts all your docs away before shutting itself off) - Twin read heads on the 5.25 Floppy for redundancy and speed (but non-standard) - Diagnostics in ROM - GUI Based Operating System (Mac's QuickDraw based on Lisa) - LisaNet networking built-in

Larry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!