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Italian Clothing Company Wins the Right to Use Steve Jobs' Name
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Trade marking "Steve jobs" hmmmm . Interesting apple did not cover it .
Wonder if they were hoping to get bought out, still might be.
Wonder if they were hoping to get bought out, still might be.
One word for those trying to unfairly piggyback off someone else’s success: losers.
Haha wow, so dumb. Steve Jobs was a terrible dresser, why would you want to buy clothes in his name?
Be right back, going to go Trademark "Jony Ive", "Tim Cook", and "Hair Force One".
Hella. This is just trolling on a bigger scale. I hope they do well in business, but not this business. Otherwise, change your branding.
I think it says a lot about the quality of their designs and clothes that they can only sell them by stealing Steve Job's name. And it also says something about their morals.
Why? This company won't last long. Let them suffocate under the weight of their own debt. Best I can tell the suit they won was in Italy. They don't have U.S. protection.
Strange, USPTO says the Steve Jobs trademark has been abandoned: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:hxlxjr.2.2
Apple can renew it and apply for priority exclusivity across the world that is a signatory to the trademark/patent/copyright laws. (There are mitigations in the laws that allows companies to override existing trademarks if their market share is large enough that the entire world know it belongs to them, it's how Apple won certain iPad trademarks in South America IIRC despite existing there before Apple had iPad trademarks).
Apple can renew it and apply for priority exclusivity across the world that is a signatory to the trademark/patent/copyright laws. (There are mitigations in the laws that allows companies to override existing trademarks if their market share is large enough that the entire world know it belongs to them, it's how Apple won certain iPad trademarks in South America IIRC despite existing there before Apple had iPad trademarks).
It’s a shame. But legally doable.
Shows Apple doesn’t just trump all in court like some people on these forums seem to think (and why they automatically go against Apple without reading the details).
Shows Apple doesn’t just trump all in court like some people on these forums seem to think (and why they automatically go against Apple without reading the details).
I love it , they capitalized on a oversight by apple, now they can monetize off of apple, just like apple does to other companies.
I worked for the twit who owns the company that made them. He brags about it all the time and is a back-stabbing [expletive]....still, he's a smart man and has made a fortune from it all. It doesn't say much about the character though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/fashion/26ROW.html
Why would they need US protection?
Personally I'm giggling over the entire episode. Apple has a lawfirm(s) full of people who handle this stuff and these dudes manage to pull a fast one.
Imagine if they end up making an electronics company that in 100 years is well known as "Jobs".
You know. Like Tesla.
You know. Like Tesla.
You have got to be kidding me. What dumb legal team failed to convince the jury / judge that the only reason that there is a bite in that J is to mimic Apple's logo, as evidenced by the proximity to the Apple leaf?
Sounds like we are now going around in circles.
- Report the news = free ad
- don't report the news = bury head in sand
Maybe because that cutout looks more like the side and top of an apple than it does a bite. The proximity of the leaf is more evidence of my opinion being correct than yours... imo, of course.
Looks like something Alienware customers and Android modders would wear
