Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow'

Source: Slashdot

Google assured it would not commercialize a product under the same name — then filed a trademark application in Tonga.

I guess a trademark beats “assurance”?

That summary was gibberish, probably because the original article was hard to understand. But if I understand it correctly, the article appeared to say that Google used the phrase “Google Flow” as a product name in 2025, and assured Autodesk that they would never change it to just “Flow” (without the “Google” part), then dropped the “Google” and applied for a trademark — first in Tonga, then in the U.S.

It took a fair amount of effort to extract that detail from the article, and unless I missed something…