J_RaD
msg:4417036 | 5:07 pm on Feb 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
istuff... what happend to real product names?
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g1smd
msg:4417126 | 8:59 pm on Feb 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Apple has already tried to buy the trademark from ITV and failed.
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bhonda
msg:4417339 | 10:14 am on Feb 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I do feel sorry for Apple here a little bit. Obviously this is an existing trade name, and they have no right just to use to as their own, but they've got to be a little bit gutted that they can't use it - it would fit so nicely with the rest of their brand names.
Oh well.
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tangor
msg:4417342 | 10:23 am on Feb 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Officials have begun confiscating iPad devices from stores in China after a court ruled in December that Apple was guilty of infringing the trademark of Chinese monitor biz Proview. |
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| The hardline action comes even though Apple is still awaiting the result of its appeal against the original December 2011 ruling in favour of Shenzhen-based Proview, which registered the “IPAD” trademark way back in 2001. |
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[channelregister.co.uk...]
Apple lost the above, but won the one below:
iPood, a camper's hand shovel to bury what it sounds like. Apple apparently so successful that you can't bing the decision! (some years back)
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graeme_p
msg:4417557 | 6:50 pm on Feb 14, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Its an intrinsic problem building a brand around a single letter (or even a common word, something Apple also had problems with): there is just too much chance that someone else will own a trademark on it somewhere.
Google had the same problem with Gmail in several countries.
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lexipixel
msg:4417767 | 6:09 am on Feb 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
A quick search of TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows dozens of TM's for "ITV", "iTV", "Itv", etc.. (including the British Broadcasting trademark).
[tess2.uspto.gov...]
The same is true of iPAD. (I remember when an "IPAD" was an "Internet Protocol Adapter", invented by Phil Becker of eSoft/TBBS in the 90's)... That was long before Steve Jobs little gizmo...
I would bargain to say that a "device" called an iTV can exist and be tradmarked -- and NOT be confusingly similar to a "network" called ITV -- with enough money and lawyers, anything is possible.
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graeme_p
msg:4417820 | 8:07 am on Feb 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
What if ITV want to launch their own set top box? I suspect ITV's trademark will cover any use the could to do with TV.
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