Apple Sues Amazon over "App Store" Trademark

[elcreative]

Sorry, already in the Public Domain but I'm going for Public Domain as a Trademark then I'll grab everything in Public Domain and own the English Language and you'll all have to get licenses to speak or read English...

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

I'm going to trademark "grocery store", "department store", and "book store".

[OtterBooks]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

99% of the time, the side with the most expensive lawyers owns whatever they want to claim they own.

The system is broken that way.

I doubt either of the companies involved have an issue there.

[wyndslash]

I want to trademark my real name

[Dulin's Books]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

As did I. The first one doesn't say that. The second is an opinion piece from a guy touting for business.

Originally Posted by elcreative

Having just read the article, Apple applied for Trademark and it was approved but this is now being opposed by another bastion of free speech - Microsoft... at the moment then Apple do have it trademarked until a court ruling on Microsoft's enlightened opposition...

sorry thought it was clear from the articles but that might have been colored by my other reading on the subject since last November. The first article is actually a bit muddied.

Apple was not granted the mark. Their application was actually rejected. They responded to that rejection and the Trademark Office issued a Final Refusal.

Apple then filed an appeal called an "Application for Reconsideration". The office approved the appeal to move forward. That doesnt mean they granted the mark, only that agreed to basically re-hear the case so to speak. The next step is putting the application out for opposition - public comment if you will.

Microsoft filed in opposition to granting the mark basically restating all of the points raised by the Office when they first refused the mark and thats where it stands today.

Apple has not be granted the mark- their appeal to the refusal is pending.

Apple is suing Amazon stating that Amazon can't use the term because Apple have FILED for the mark.


Its as if I filed for the trademark Mobile Read tomorrow and filed a cease and desist to this forum's owners because they are using it after I filed the application.

If that was/is allowed by the court where the suit was filed it will set a ridiculous precedent and set off a wave of application filing and litigation that have lawyers laughing at the bank for years.

[spellbanisher]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

I want to trademark my real name

I'm going to trademark wyndslash.

[RockdaMan]

This is all so very trivial.

[wyndslash]

Originally Posted by spellbanisher

I'm going to trademark wyndslash.

You can't own me :P

[FF2]

Originally Posted by RockdaMan

This is all so very trivial.

Not the legal fees!

[spellbanisher]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

You can't own me :P

No, but I can sue you!

[wyndslash]

Not if I sue you first

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Anagnostis

Apple, in a complaint filed March 18 in California, accused a grocery shop in my neighborhood for selling Apples ....

...good one

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

I'm going to trademark "grocery store", "department store", and "book store".

I'm gonna do "Monkey Store" before you do.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I'm gonna do "Monkey Store" before you do.

Oh. Stick a sock in it!

[GreenMonkey]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I'm gonna do "Monkey Store" before you do.

NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Barty]

Isnt there some sort of gentlemen't agreement that you don't call your product the same thing as somebody else's better known product? Google didn't call their word processor google Word, even though "word" is even more generic than app store. Android marketplace is pretty much the android app store, but they don't call it that, because they don't want to get sued, and because they have some freaking pride! Samsung don't call their tablet the Samsung Pad, or RIM the BlackPad. That's the kind of stuff cheap Chibese copycats do, not multi billion dollar major players.

Sorry, this is a cheap shot by amazon. They're appropriating a better known brand, counting on apple to sue them so they get some free publicity. But since apple is evil, it's okay, right?