USPTO denies Google ‘Nexus One’ trademark for their Android ‘superphone’ flop

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Apple Online Store“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.

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  4. @ neomonkey: In our personal experience, they are a spammer-friendly ISP. They do not take action against the multiple serial spammers that we have complained about, so we’ve stopped wasting our time reporting them.

    ISP’s like Comcast, Road Runner, Google etc. – you send one complaint and things stop.

    With Yahoo! someone in India sends a reply that it didn’t come from Yahoo, you end and email saying “Yes it did”, and they send them an email saying “No, you can’t forge the last hop and it’s in our mail server log”, and then they say the same thing again, and after a few more times they get around to doing something.

    But Integra acts just like the other big spammers (FDC Servers being just one example) in that they do nothing to stop it.

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  7. Let me LexisNexis that Nexus for you google… thought you knew how to search.

    does such negligence open them up to a shareholder suit?

    Google has way too much money to be copying others.

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