“In the legendary rivalry between Microsoft and Apple, there have been many subjects of dispute,” Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire. “But this may be a first.”
“Microsoft, opposing Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase ‘App Store,’ today filed a motion with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to strike the iPhone maker’s latest filing in the case — saying that its response to Microsoft’s attempt to dismiss the case violated court rules that limit such briefs to 25 pages, and require them to be in at least 11 point font,” Bishop reports.
Bishop reports, “The company asks the trademark court to require Apple to file a new brief that ‘complies with the rules and does not add any new matter or arguments.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It doesn’t get much weaker than that. If it wasn’t for Apple, Microsoft wouldn’t even know what a font is.
Next Microsoft will argue that because they were too stupid to build their own “App Store” before Apple, as always, showed them how it’s done, granting Apple the “App Store” trademark would be a violation of their rights under The Americans with Disabilities Act.
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