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Microsoft Objects to Apple's 'App Store' Trademark Application
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MS is just mad they dont have a cool name for their programs. "gee, let's go to the 'program store' and find some cool 'programs.''" sounds kinda lame
And I may think karsten is a lame name, but that doesn't really mean anything, does it?
Ugh clueless.
It's actually "Microsoft Windows," "Microsoft Internet Explorer," "Microsoft Word," etc.
Either way, Windows doesn't describe what the OS is. Neither does Word. Internet Explorer does, but there's a "Microsoft" there.
Nice try. You were only the 6th clueless hurf to post that.
"Internet Explorer," while "descriptive," wouldn't be generic, however. "Internet Explorer" is a "web browser," not an "internet explorer." Hence "Internet Explorer" could likely be trademarked by itself, particularly since it has acquired "secondary meaning" (it is associated with Microsoft).
I agree, but I'm just being as charitable as possible to prove a point.
There's always going to be somebody out there who thinks that "everyone would have called browsers explorers if Microsoft hadn't trademarked it."
It's already called Marketplace.
Microsoft aren't doing this to change what they call their existing stores.
correct. THe problem comes if Apple gets to keep the trademark on App Store prevents everyone from using App store to describe their respective App Store.
That is where the issue lies.
Btw if people want to keep going on about Windows and Word I could easily point out the word "Apple" for Apple.
maybe im blind but i dont see "Word" as being a microsoft registered trademark, only the logo they drew up for word 2010
EDIT: also "office" by itself is not a trademark, ONLY the logo is.
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/EN-US.aspx
EDIT: also "office" by itself is not a trademark, ONLY the logo is.
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/EN-US.aspx
Exactly. MS simply doesn't want to get sued if it calls its Marketplace "an app store."
If a tree falls in the woods... Marketplace, schmarketplace.
Stop being so annoying. You've been proven wrong multiple times, I'd probably expect you to stop posting out of embarrassment.
I don't think you completely understand what generic trademarks are.
It's generic if the name of the product explains or acts as a definition for what the product is. "Apple" is a fruit, so it doesn't explain what the company is or, well, that it's a company at all.
Besides, it's "Apple Incorporated" anyway, so that's not generic.
I've never been proven wrong.
Show me once where I've been wrong. I'm an insider. I know things before the likes of you could even imagine them.
Put me in my place buddy. Show me how I'm so "wrong"...
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At least one place you seem to be wrong is your assertion that Apple "deserves" the trademark - at least in so far as your assertion means they have a legal right to it. It would appear not, since a majority of the public seems to refer to stores that sell downloadable mobile applications as "app stores."
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