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Totally agree, though reminiscent of the early days of PC's with IBM (the OS and PC name..) and again naming conventions with Intel (they wanted to trademark 38
by Zenst 8y ago
Totally agree, though reminiscent of the early days of PC's with IBM (the OS and PC name..) and again naming conventions with Intel (they wanted to trademark 386 etc and was told they could not do that with numbers - hence they started using the Pentium brand they could trademark along with a massive campaign of Intel Inside...).
Lucky the more savvy consumer see's right thru this tailgating and more so in the realms of arm SBC's.
But equally, Raspberry could not trademark "Pi" or indeed "Raspberry", though they could trademark "Raspberry Pi" - https://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules/
Though, as they wanted to recreate the early fun days of computing, this whole `plagiarism` angle sure does rekindle some nostalgia.
- IshKebab 8y agoThey could absolutely register "Pi" or "Raspberry" as trademarks. Well they could have anyway - might be too late now to do it retroactively.
- Zenst 8y agohttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21597-us-judge-rules-that-you-cant-copyright-pi.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21597-us-judge-rules-t... Along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention Play a factor in trademarks and copyright. Then the variations in each country of what you can and can't trademark/copyright.
- IshKebab 8y agoThat's copyright. A totally different thing.
- gmiller123456 8y ago>But equally, Raspberry could not trademark "Pi" or indeed "Raspberry" One very close counter example would be "Blackberry". You absolutely can trademark common words for use in specific markets. Another infamous example is "Apple" as both a computer company and a music label. Had there been other computers already using "Raspberry" or "Pi", they likely would have run into issues using "Raspberry Pi".
- Zenst 8y agoYes, though in Apples case they fell foul of Apple records and eventually settled that they would not do anything music related. That changed, though they financially better placed to handle and settle that issue than the initial conflict. Just checked for a wiki entry and good to see my memory of that era not that bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer