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Well, to be fair, you were infringing on their trademark (or whoseever trademark it was previously).
by spicyj 16y ago
Well, to be fair, you were infringing on their trademark (or whoseever trademark it was previously).
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- petercooper 16y agoThat depends on what their app did. From what I can make out with Google cache, it was a timer app. The two trademarks Facetime Corp held (and which Apple has supposedly bought) orient around "computer software used for communicating over global computer networks using voice, text, fax, or e-mail." A timer app called Facetime doesn't on the face of it appear to violate either of these other Facetime trademarks but.. trademarks are a wishy-washy world of legal wrangling, so it seems Apple's prepared to just push their weight around since they own the store and have the right to do so.
- falien 16y agoThey're both software. Its easily conceivable that a non-moron could search for one and mistake it for the other. This case seems like an actual violation whose enforcement would be much more reasonable than most other disputes that have made the news the last few years.
- ErrantX 16y agoThe only "not great" thing is that it is Apple that have introduced this as a problem, not this app developer. Which is a bit brutish.
- glhaynes 16y agoIt would be "less brutish" if the app developer were to have done it?
- ErrantX 16y agoWell I was trying to choose a relatively non-negative word. Apple made an app, then "bought" a name - and then enforced it. Kosher, yep I guess. A little forceful; yes definitely. It's not something most people would make a habit of doing.
- Luc 16y agoWhether they own the store or not has nothing to do with it. It's a straightforward legal claim. They have sent the same kinds of notices to app developers for other trademark owners. It's especially straightforward because they have published their own app with that name, so it's not just a matter of over-zealous trademark protection.
- dalore 16y agoSo Apple records should get Apple to cease selling music.
- ahoyhere 16y agoAll you'd have to do is Google to avoid making a very, very silly comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
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- joe_the_user 16y agoAs the gp said. A trademark dispute is not necessarily a straightforward legal at all. Buying the claim of one side and using your power to enforce an otherwise tenuous sounds like ... uh bullying.