True. For example, I am often surprised to see people confused by the relationship between MaidSafe and SAFE Network. There are plenty of examples where you have an open source project/product that has a corporate entity/leader as the primary developer. Consider Ubuntu and Canonical, Altair and PBSPro, Oracle and VirtualBox, Redhat and CentOS… etc. Why this is so confusing to the cryptonaughts is beyond me… maybe the MAID ticker symbol?
EDIT: This is the other thread where we also recently discussed this topic - (Re)/(more)branding - should we do the unthinkable?
The take away from that thread was that the simplest thing to do to eliminate IP issues was to change from safecoin to just safe or safes. Seems like the best option currently, especially when considering the fact that we have often intuitively shortened safecoin denominations to a quantity of safe in conversations here on the forum.