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IANAL but I don't think this is infringing. Your allowed to sell Apple Macs and advertise them as "Bob's Apple Mac store" without paying any royalties to Apple
by richardwhiuk 6y ago
IANAL but I don't think this is infringing.
Your allowed to sell Apple Macs and advertise them as "Bob's Apple Mac store" without paying any royalties to Apple.
Similarly, Amazon can deploy the open-source ElasticSearch product, and deploy it, unaltered using the trademark.
- nwallin 6y ago> Your allowed to sell Apple Macs and advertise them as "Bob's Apple Mac store" without paying any royalties to Apple. I don't think you can name your store "Bob Apple Mac Store". You can advertise that you can buy an Apple Mac at "Bob's Computer Store".
- TheKarateKid 6y agoTrademark law goes by category. Elastic uses theirs for a software product as well as a service, whereas Amazon is using it for their cloud services (not as a standalone software product). This is why Apple Corps (music, Beatles) and Apple Computer Inc. were allowed to coexist. This situation is a very fine line between the technicalities that the trademark law was written for. Amazon knows this, and they have the money to set legal precedent in court to have it their way. And so stomping on Elastic's trademark is the route they chose to further benefit from that company's reputation.