“Google failed in its bid to own the ‘Nexus One’ name for its Android 2.1 smartphone, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected its application for a trademark on the moniker,” Clint Boulton reports for eWeek.
“That mark is currently commanded by Integra Telecom, which in December 2008 registered the trademark for its Nexus fixed bandwidth integrated voice and Internet T1 product,” Boulton reports. “What does this all mean? Google could contest the ruling, pay Integra for the right to use the name, or change the Nexus One name.”
Boulton reports that “in its first 74 days,” Google’s rebadged HTC “Nexus One only moved 135,000 units.”
Read more in the full article here.
May as well rename it; nobody would notice.
with all the money that google has, why could they not have worked this out before selling the damn thing. when apple informed the world of the iPhone, cisco was already in talks with Apple. otherwise, cisco would sue. i guess eric “the mole” schmidt still has not learned his lesson.
Isn’t there a way to search to see if a name
is already taken?
At this point, I don’t think Google will want that name, since they will NOT want to call the next phone “Nexus Two.”
Integra Telecom should sue Google for damages to their brand.
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Bladerunner has more rights to the name.
Google. Anyone else wonder if they should focus on fewer things?
They could always call it
Exodus One
hehe
Ubermac,
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I checked:
http://www.uspto.gov
Flop One is available.
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you, to learn Google hadn’t thoroughly researched and prepared something about their phone.
They should have googled the name first.
Nice call
@sander:
ba-dump-bump-pssh
Google will just ignore this ruling, as they are more trustworthy than any government….
Now to be fair, they should poll all of their customers and see what impact this will have on their use of the phone. With this size of a customer base it could easily disrupt commerce and communication on an unprecedented scale.
They have the number for two of the customers, but the third is not listed. Any help would be appreciated so this matter can be resolved quickly.
Time to nix the Nexus.
They may as well rebadge it as something else… Oh wait, they’ve already done that…
How about “Google Nix-it 1”?
LOL. We have blocked soooooooo many Integra Telecom IP addresses for spamming, it’s not funny. So Google’s beholden to a spammer, probably one that they have themselves fought with in the past!
“Integra” is such an ironic name for a spamming company.
Was Zune One taken?
I know—The Somebody Please Buy One!
The Noxious One.
@Sander.
Now that was funny. Classic!!
We have blocked soooooooo many Integra Telecom IP addresses for spamming, it’s not funny.
Integra is just an ISP, mine as it turns out. I can’t believe that any more spammers use them than any other ISP, but this might explain why my emails are blocked by one recipient’s service. This sucks.
Shooting all the dogs just because some have fleas.