“Xoom Corp., operator of a money- transfer website, sued Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for trademark infringement for naming its new tablet computer that went on sale today the Xoom,” Don Jeffrey and Hugo Miller report for Bloomberg. “Xoom Corp., based in San Francisco, said it has been offering its online service since 2003 and registered the trademark for the name in 2004, according to a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in San Francisco.”
“‘To confuse and mislead consumers, Motorola without authorization deliberately and unlawfully appropriated Xoom’s trade name and trademark rights,’ the closely held company said in the complaint,” Jeffrey and Miller report. “Motorola Mobility’s trademark application was rejected in December by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which said it was too similar to one owned by Zoom Telephonics Inc. in Boston, according to information on the office’s website.”
MacDailyNews Take: Motorola wasn’t content with trying to copy the iPad, they had to copy someone else’s product name, too. We’re half-surprised that the derivative bastages didn’t just try to call it iPad. The thing looks so much like an iPad, they should’ve called it “iPretend.” Apple ought to sue them back into the radio age for trade dress infringement, at the very least.
Jeffrey and Miller report, “The case is Xoom Corp. v. Motorola Trademark Holdings LLC, 11-0848, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Regardless, it’s a stupid name that only a xylophone player could love.
Some of these posts certainly detail the fact that one’s ‘intelligence’ with regards to their computer/electronics choice stops at the ‘techno gadget’ water’s edge and their utter ignorance and colossal idiocy takes over!
Apple hater? Me?! From someone who does not know me, is pretty asinine of a comment to make since I own Apple stock, never owned a PC, currently still have all 5 Mac computers I purchased since 1995 including my first ever mobile laptop the MacBook Air that was just recently refreshed, not to mention the proud owner of the iPad and I’m waiting to see what iPhone 5 will be and may take that plunge as well. Apple hater, no, just not an Apple lemming that when MDN posts on Motorola’s use of Xoom and lawsuit pending, I’m simply one that made a simple one sentence statement and provided one link and true to form, if Apple were Unionized, the Apple Union Thugs here on MDN came out like clockwork that would make SEIU proud! No, I’m not an Apple hater. I’m just one not afraid to point out the similarities of Motorola’s issues to Apple’s past issue and then watch all those who claim others who do not have their facts straight, post factually incorrect information.
It’s kind of funny… a little sad, but mostly funny!