Here’s a tool to help avoid that awkward moment you realize your name is trademarked

It’s not been a great week over at JavaScript repository NPM after a trademark battle erupted between a longtime contributor and messaging app Kik, resulting in the former pulling his code and crashing thousands of websites. But, as always in the tech community, a solution is never too far away. GitHub user Andrea Parodi has created a simple tool to check if your NPM project name is trademarked. You can run it across the entire site, or check out specific users. It’s