Apple sues Amazon over name App Store
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- Boz
Apple decides to sue Amazon over a generic term such as app and store.
bwahahaha.. Apple.. what else can you say...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/…
I say, Amazon should countersue for Apple wasting their time.
- raf0
- Boz0
It doens't matter.. Microsoft or Apple.. both douchenozzle companies..
Who even allows trademarking a generic name.. They might have submitted to the US patent and trademark office but that doesn't necessarily mean they got it because the process it painfully slow.. it takes forever.
Amazon needs to just contest this idiocy with patent office and throw it out that a stupid thing like App store can be trademark.. nonsense. That's like trademarking word supermarket.
- It's not trademarked. Well, it is in the EU. In the US it is trademark pending.raf
- raf0
When you have a trademark in the US, you must defend it or risk its genericization. Just like Adobe keeps sending cease and desist letters to enthusiast blogs which names contain 'Flash', 'Photoshop', 'Air' and Amazon sends it to ones with 'Kindle' in their titles, Apple must legally threaten entities using the term 'app store'.
- please don't use your real-world logic here on qbn.inteliboy
- randommail0
So McDonald's should sue Apple for the word "Mac".
- They should make a burger called MacProDodecahedron
- or McPro...wateverDodecahedron
- BigMac ProDodecahedron
- BK has the Whopper Jr.
So McDonald's should have the Big Mac Mini!randommail
- abettertomorrow0
Let's go see what the guys over at FlashDen think about this...
- BusterBoy0
Fruit need to launch a class action against Apple Inc...
- abettertomorrow0
Didn't Apple Records sue Apple once upon a time?
- utopian0
GFY Apple
- kingsteven0
"Amazon needs to just contest this idiocy with patent office"
remember this? apple were the only people to licence 1-click ordering from amazon... for the app store.
- sorry for itunes, forgot you can buy music on there.kingsteven
- raf0
They must defend their TM. Otherwise they risk genericization.
Just like those brands: Hoover, Velcro, Aspirin, Catseye, Escalator, Heroin(!), Laundromat, Thermos, Pilates, Videotape, Zipper, Yo-Yo...- really... Videotape?Dodecahedron
- http://en.wikipedia.…raf
- hmm.Dodecahedron
- Heroin, catchyabettertomorrow
- raf0
Just in case Amazon begins to look like the good guys here:
Amazon Gives Kindle Book-Swapping Service Lendle The Axe
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21…
- moldero0
Apple should pay that spanish bitch for use of the sun
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps…
I apologize for the Fox link
- CanHasQBN0
It's not a "generic" term. It is only generic-sounding because Apple has made it so popular. Remember, Apple was the computer company that used the term "Applications" for it's software. Windows called it "Programs". Have you heard the term "app" before Apple came along?
The moment I heard "app" I thought of it as a "mini application", and that's what they were when they first came out on the iPhone.
No every company uses the word app. If they didn't, they'd just look dumb.
- Did Apple really come up with applications? Never heard thatabettertomorrow
- (No=Now)CanHasQBN
- well the file extension has been .app as long as i can remember.kingsteven
- You don't have to hear it, just look at a Mac and PC. Apple uses "Applications", PC uses "Programs".CanHasQBN
- are you seriously arguing that Apple invented the term applicaitons? That's just nuts.Boz
- I've used in the 80s the term applicaitions when visiting my mom's IT dept. in a bank that has nothing to do with Apple.. and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- Apple took it from others.. they certainly didn't invent the term applications nor apps.Boz
- http://en.wikipedia.…Boz
- phasetransitions0
this is so dumb!
waste of money and effort
like packaging with colored ink on it
JUST DIE ALREADY STEVE JUST DIE
- kingsteven0
The creators of Flash, Jonathan Gay and Robert Tatsumi left Macromedia to found Greenbox (the company that creates those interactive power usage meters) when they realised that Flash banner ads responsible for 20% of all residential power usage.
FACT
- raf0
When Steve Jobs announced the App Store, both appstore.com and the trade mark 'appstore' belonged to Salesforce.com
Now, appstore.com belongs to Apple, and the trade 'app store' is trade mark pending. The trade mark 'appstore' was abandoned by Salesforce.com
- the owner of Salesforce killed himself by decapitation somehow mysteriouslymoldero
- mg330
I heard that Macho Man Randy Savage was suing Mexico for inventing nachos.
- LOLphasetransitions
- its not Randy Nacho man Savage though :Pmoldero
- yeah he has no case.Boz
- hotroddy0
There is no doubt apple popularized the 'app' term. No one should be surprised they are suing over this. Everything they do is trademarked. It's part of their brilliant marketing strategy that makes otherwise very techy sounding products approachable and non-intimidating. They intentionally make it tacky so that soccer moms can digest it.
- omg0
I've never heard of anyone using the term "app store" before apple. I guess it became "generic" when Apple created another product that was worth stealing.
In all honesty, Amazon has been suing others for doing the same. Remember "one-click shopping."?
- Aye, mentioned above. Apple were the only company to license one-click from Amazonkingsteven
- i guess this is payback time.kingsteven
- ayeomg
- raf0
As I said, 'appstore' used to be a trademark of Salesforce.com—Apple's strong ally these days.