“Amazon.com isn’t the only company being targeted by Apple for using the phrase ‘app store’ in conjunction with its Android marketplace,” Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire. “Seattle-based MiKandi, which bills itself as ‘the world’s first app store for adults,’ received its own cease-and-desist request from Apple this month, asking the company to stop using the phrase.”

“It’s not MiKandi’s first brush with Apple. The company was pushed in the spotlight last year when Apple’s Steve Jobs referred derisively to the fact that there was a ‘porn store’ on Android — referring to MiKandi without using its name,” Bishop reports. “For the record, the words ‘app store’ still appear on the MiKandi site. Co-founder Jesse Adams says they’ll wait it out, for now, and see how Microsoft’s challenge to Apple’s trademark registration turns out.”

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