Trademark use in software package names (USA)
<p>Does the use of a Trademark in a software package (an NPM package for example) qualify for descriptive fair use if its usage is intended to describe how the package relates to the original trademarked program? </p>

<p>For example, say I want to release an NPM package named chrome-dev-tool-enhancer that does something special to enhance Chrome's Dev tools.</p>

<p>The name would be describing how that package's functionality is related to the Chrome browser, a trademark of Google.</p>

<p>It sure looks like a lot of packages on NPM, Rubygems, Hex, etc., use trademarked names in this way. Is this considered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">fair use</a>?</p>

<p>It seems like you've done a lot of the work for me, but yes, nominative fair use is a thing, and if your package is something that builds on Chrome dev tools, then you can probably use the Chrome mark to refer to the browser that the package is for.  I would, however, be very careful to not seem like you're endorsed by Chrome.  I'm pretty sure that's bad.</p>

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