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Best line: "No word on whether Canada's Coconut Grove Pads [selling iPad bras] will enter the trademark battle, but since its products are substantially differe
by blahedo 17y ago
Best line: "No word on whether Canada's Coconut Grove Pads [selling iPad bras] will enter the trademark battle, but since its products are substantially different from Fujitsu's, Magtek's, or Apple's, we believe that any such effort would be a bust."
- robg 17y agoThat brings up the best point: Can Fujitsu really claim that their device can be confused with the Apple iPad? The one place that Apple isn't trying to TM iPad is the Fujitsu use case. Remember, Apple and the Beatles only had a serious fight once Apple moved into music sales.
- cdibona 17y agoI'd think so, this is very much in the same domain as Apple's new product. It was the change of domain that exposed apple (computer) to the apple (music) trademark. But this is actually as if Apple named the Iphone out of the gate as an "Apple Razr". Sure, one might not have buttons, but there is a clear in domain example of infringement. They'll end up paying Fujitsu a pile, I think.
- robg 17y agoPlease, go read the Trademark applications. Apple's is very broad while not including a use as retail sales platform while Fujitsu's is very, very specific to include only a use as a retail sales platform. There isn't an overlap in actual use no matter how much the devices may look/act alike. In the Beatles case, Apple wanted to change the name to have a much broader TM to include music use cases. At that point the trademarks came into obvious conflict. It's not about domains, it's about uses. You pay for each category of use. When you look at how those categories are broken down it becomes obvious why it's set up that way.