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What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case t

by rdslw 9y ago

What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case though.

dannylmathews 9y ago
Hey, I am not affiliated with Amazon. Fair point on using Goodreads. I'm just using that name so people quickly get an idea of the product ex) how people pitch their ideas as Uber for X
- epicide 9y ago
  Amazon won't see it that way. If not now, then when you get big.
zodPod 9y ago
Your legal knowledge has left me speachless. Amazon has very generic trademarks on the word echo. Podcasts are a recorded format meant for playback that provides commentary on different categories. Amazon definitely holds trademarks on these types of areas. That said, I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to how much issue the overlap would cause but regardless Amazon has billions of dollars and could walk all over anyone they want so I'm pretty sure if this got bigger and they took issue with the use of the name Echo they could cause a lot of hell.
- rdslw 9y ago
  There is a world beside US. Bigger actually. In fact amazon can't have (generic 'echo' word trademark) and does not have it in any sane part of world. All sane states do not allow generic trademark on common word. My speechless was (and still is) about how much brainwashed must we be to consider it fine, normal and to actually defend such practice. Yuck.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Nobody said it was fine or normal. The law is the law regardless of how depraved it may be, and you don't get immunity by being appalled. By the way, Apple Computer (now just Apple) was sued by Apple Corps and had to pay $80k, and that was in England, not in the US.
    - rdslw 9y ago
      Sure you can sue as you'd like, but in this case: * Apple never lost over trademark in court with Apple Corps and did not had to pay. * When Apple Corps tried to finally sue breach of trademark agreement (the one for 80k), they ultimately lost in front of court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#cite_note-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#c...
      - icebraining 9y ago
        Apple Computer was not infringement of the agreement, but they had to pay $80k to get that agreement, because they may have infringed on the trademark. It's true that we don't known if they would have lost initially, but if it was clearly frivolous, they wouldn't have paid $80k to settle.
JoeAltmaier 9y ago
Hey, Intel has a trademark on the lower=case letter 'i'

by rdslw 9y ago

What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case though.

dannylmathews 9y ago

Hey, I am not affiliated with Amazon. Fair point on using Goodreads. I'm just using that name so people quickly get an idea of the product ex) how people pitch their ideas as Uber for X

epicide 9y ago
Amazon won't see it that way. If not now, then when you get big.

zodPod 9y ago

Your legal knowledge has left me speachless. Amazon has very generic trademarks on the word echo. Podcasts are a recorded format meant for playback that provides commentary on different categories. Amazon definitely holds trademarks on these types of areas. That said, I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to how much issue the overlap would cause but regardless Amazon has billions of dollars and could walk all over anyone they want so I'm pretty sure if this got bigger and they took issue with the use of the name Echo they could cause a lot of hell.

rdslw 9y ago
There is a world beside US. Bigger actually. In fact amazon can't have (generic 'echo' word trademark) and does not have it in any sane part of world. All sane states do not allow generic trademark on common word. My speechless was (and still is) about how much brainwashed must we be to consider it fine, normal and to actually defend such practice. Yuck.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Nobody said it was fine or normal. The law is the law regardless of how depraved it may be, and you don't get immunity by being appalled. By the way, Apple Computer (now just Apple) was sued by Apple Corps and had to pay $80k, and that was in England, not in the US.
  - rdslw 9y ago
    Sure you can sue as you'd like, but in this case: * Apple never lost over trademark in court with Apple Corps and did not had to pay. * When Apple Corps tried to finally sue breach of trademark agreement (the one for 80k), they ultimately lost in front of court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#cite_note-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#c...
    - icebraining 9y ago
      Apple Computer was not infringement of the agreement, but they had to pay $80k to get that agreement, because they may have infringed on the trademark. It's true that we don't known if they would have lost initially, but if it was clearly frivolous, they wouldn't have paid $80k to settle.

JoeAltmaier 9y ago

Hey, Intel has a trademark on the lower=case letter 'i'