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Apple Loses 'iPhone' Name Rights in Mexico over Phonetic Similarity [Updated]
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Wow, great read. Love it when little guys like your brother are able to step up to the big boys.
Well done to him!
I think Mack truck should sue Apple as I sometimes get confused. Is that a computer driving on the freeway next to me? I heard it was a "mack".
Wow, great read. Love it when little guys like your brother are able to step up to the big boys.
Well done to him!
Cheers
It was great when he could finally move on and start doing what he loves again, making games. I loved his integrity after they settled, were he didn't even want compensation, he just wanted to move on as it had physically and mentally taken it's toll to the point he considered giving up working on games, something he's been passionate about for over 20 years.
This post is a total fail. Your logic would have been right if a) iFone hadn't been registered first and b) if Apple had just gone after them once and settled. But iFone came first, and Apple decided to press this 3 times. So it's obvious that they aren't suing just to prove due diligence in trademark protection...they're doing it because Apple is the corporate equivalent of a petty 10 year old.
Yet another dumb ruling. iPhone is "different" than ifone... Duh!!
What pool of resources are these countries getting their judges from?!?
I live in México and trust me, iPhone and ifone are the same. Spanish relies a lot more on phonetic spelling than English.
On patent enforcement they should concentrate on the big guys, and they've done fairly there IMO.
On trademark enforcement, they go over the top.
What's your point?
I live in México and drink from the faucet every day... wouldn't do that in many US cities. But what any of that has to do with iPhone vs ifone is anybody's guess. Some immature people just like to bash México whenever they can.
If you're saying they were doing the right thing by going after Samsung, you're wrong. Samsung's tablets are only similar to the iPad in that they are touchscreen and they don't have a keyboard.
If Apple had come out on top, I have no doubt that the anecdotal water in that very ice would have been the elixir of life itself.
The post was entirely correct. If you've ever created or worked with a patent or trademark then you would know this to be true. You criticize the author of the post as if he made that stuff up. He didn't. It's the way the laws work. Since you are well ignorant of the law, you're not qualified to stand as judge and jury.
I hear ya.
Mexico has a sour taste in Canadian mouths because of the beatings and and explosions at resorts.
I probably won't go there just on reputation. Even though I'm sure its a great place. I just wouldn't feel as relaxed.
Maybe units sold weren't great yet, but the silhouette ads was a huge hit, especially in design/marketing/advertising world.
Everybody tried to copy that hip design/ad style - bold colors, flat vector graphics, it was all over the place for years. That campaign brought a lot of attention to iPod and it's name. I know that was the first time I heard of iPod, based on those ads.
I have no prove, but I'm willing to bet the "i" from iFone was trying to grab a piece of that cake. And as the other poster has mentioned, iMac was already out for years. Do you really think a company in Mexico came up with a lower case "i" in front of their name just because they thought of it, and Apple's influence in the world at that time had nothing to do with it?
iFone has been around since 2003. How in the bloody hell can they be infringing on Apple's trademark?
You people will defend Apple over anything
Timing is irrelevant. Ask all the cyber-squatters that tried to extort companies when the internet was young. As I said, settling shows no attempt to protect your trademark. And, your approach sure worked well for Apple in China with the iPad trademark... oh wait.
absolutely, also worth to mention nowadays Apple has so many little dumb apples to support their stupid and discussing "strategies" and their ways to
"prosper"
Apple had no grounds to sue iFone - well not when iFone registered their trademark years before Apple did.
Bullying from Apple
Yes, obviously it's all iFone's fault for not being able to predict the future and changing their name
iFone are not cybersquatters. Web Archive has a copy of their site from 2003 where they are clearly using the iFone name.
Apple is the pursuer here, and they got their asses handed to them. From reading these posts it makes it sound like iFone went after Apple.
They weren't protecting their trademark, they were trying to steal someone else's. Stop mindlessly defending them and think for a minute. iFone had the trademark first, and Apple tried to bully them out of it. That's a large multi-billion dollar corporation trying to take a name from a small business because they are too petty to just accept the fact that they weren't first.
There's never giving up, and then there's being a douchebag and a bully when you don't have to.
Apple keeps doing the latter.
As for my sig explaining something... Huh?