Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules

On September 24 Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín decided the motions to dismiss that had been under submission in WP Engine’s lawsuit against Automattic since June. The seventeen-page order revives four antitrust claims she had thrown out in an earlier ruling, and buried in its last page is a holding that matters to every hosting company that has ever been asked to pay for the WordPress name.