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> It’s the product’s name, so clearly it must be a factual description of what it does.

Nope. If it's misleading, it doesn't matter. Names don't have to be verbatim, but they should not be misleading.

> show me where it claims in any way shape or form that you are buying a cartridge of ink that you can keep using after your subscription

Not my claim. What I'm saying is that I believe the name and advertising could be seen as misleading in a similar way to existing class action lawsuits. It doesn't matter that the hpconnected site is ranked higher in google; the hp.com site for instantink is pretty misleading as seen in all the points in the other thread.

Maybe you don't think veggie straws was misleading either, but a class action lawsuit [1] came of it. My original point was that the name of the product is more significant than you implied in your comment.

1: https://truthinadvertising.org/class-action/sensible-portion...




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