The Apple Name Game

Apple Core sent a link to an article running in Australia about Apple fighting for their name with some little telco called Apple Communications. Well, they were called that. Now they are Green.

It wouldn't be too long before...

[Vexler]

...all the grocery stands, supermarkets, and open-air markets would have to pay the Big A for using their name on all the produce tags.

sheesh...

[skydude_20]

People fighting over generic names of fruits, whats next?!? people fighting over generic names of holes, like windows???

Now I understang why Ogg Vorbis

[Sri Lumpa]

With names like Ogg and Vorbis it is much easier to establish a trademark given that they are completely invented name (oh! wait! Maybe they are words in another langage?). And given the controversy inside Free Software circles it gives them much marketing for free.

BTW, on close view I am for Apple on this one, I really think they will win against Apple ;).

And the next lawsuit is...

[kitzilla]

...going to be over their choice of domain name: iGreen.com.au. These guys must enjoy being in court.

Internet copyright lawyers are generally iTools about stuff like this.

In today's news...

[Helpadingoatemybaby]

Green is being sued by a man named "Green Giant" and so is changing it's name to "Fish Communications" only to be sued by Capt. Highliner, the rock band Fysh, and Microsoft (for using the word "communications".)

Later at discovery it was discovered that there are no words left to trademark, period. (tm)

Linux and the big time

[bgfay]

I'm concerned that Linux is not going to make it to the big time for one simple reason. While coders are working on the system, developers are writing applications, and the press is writing about Linux, there is no concerted effort by a central group that is pursuing important lawsuits against those who use the word "Linux," the syllable "lin," or the letter L in their product names. Further, the penquins at are zoo are labeled as such without any notice that they are not related to or shareholders of a Linux company. I for one am confused by these misleading names and animals and I am sure that if they aren't stopped, and I mean soon, Linux is sure to fade into obscurity.

Can't someone do anything about this problem before it's too late? And why isn't Linus leading the legal fight? What's he got that is more important to work on?

And in breaking news.....

[bain]

Apple computers is sueing New York for $ 100 billion Dollors for using "The Big Apple" to promite the city. A spokes person for Apple (computers) said "New York is obviosly using our good name to lure overpriced high earning apple users to new york and get rid of the bad apples already there"

As the saying goes. One bad apple spoils the bunch.

Re:The original Apple

[david duncan scott]

I guess you've forgotten, but Apple also released some James Taylor, Badfinger, Ravi Shankar, Jackie Lomax, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, as well as, yes, Mary Hopkin.

As for naming the computer company, well, this was the year when "Kentucky Fried Computer" seemed like a reasonable name, as did "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia". Maybe it was the Bicentennial fever which gripped us all...

Check the web site...

[Anonymous Coward]

www.apple.com/osx:
Apple - Page Not Found

iHypocrite, defined on google:
http://labs.google.com/glossary?q=ihypocr ite

Sorry, there are no definitions for ihypocrite

New's Flash

[scelus_scientiae]

This just in. Apparently a Granny Smith is being sued by Apple Corp. Smith contends that she had has had the name rights to Apple for over 100 years, but in a California court today Smith was forced to change her name to Granny Smith Penquin Snacks and forfiet over $1,000,000 dollars of damages to Apple. Smith was quoted as saying, "This trial is a travisty. It's a travisty of a mockary of a sham of a mockary of a travisty of two mockaries of a sham". (bananas)

Oh! No wonder!

[Anonymous Coward]

No wonder Apple Computers cost $100 more, all that extra money goes to defending their name!

Re:Sosume

[Pig Hogger]

What they don't mention is that when Apple did release the Mac, they named one of the system sounds Sosume /So-sue-me/, basically laughing at Apple recording.

They also had a prototype of a machine named Sagan , in honour of the astonomer. But it fell on deaf ears, and Carl Sagan promptly sued them. They renamed the prototype BHA , for " Butt-Headed Asstronomer". Sagan sued again, but this time, the courts told him to chill out.

Re:Apple Auto Glass

[Qwerpafw]

Apple Auto Glass makes Windows.