You can add the word "store" to pretty much anything that is sellable. That doesn't give you the right to trademark it. If I start selling empty milk cartons, and name my company/website/shop "Empty Milk Cartons Store" and then other companies realize they could also sell empty milk cartons because it's profitable nowadays, I can't just trademark "Empty Milk Cartons Store" because I was first to put those words together.
P.S. I love ridiculous examples
I think he is almost a troll at this point. I also willing to bet it is another longer term member hiding under that name incase it gets banned or something.
I base this on the fact the account is 3 years old,still a newbie and all his other post seem to be in threads that turn into pointless arguments of people who understand and those who have very little clue.
He already tried the prior art argument which is irrelevant for trademarks.
If the public starts calling all other app stores app stores to describe then then apple loses that part of the trade mark.
Apple can be the only one who lets say has their App Store call App Store for its offical name but they can not stop others from using lets say
Mircrosoft App Store as a name and it from being in the stores description.
Look at Duct Tape. Any tape like it is call Duct Tape and sold as such.
There is Duct Tape brand Duct Tape but all the other brands just call the product duct tape. Very legal.
over the trademark.
