“Amazon.com Inc., responding to a trademark lawsuit by Apple Inc. over its use of the words ‘App Store,’ said the term is generic and denied that the iPhone maker has exclusive rights to the phrase,” Karen Gullo reports for Bloomberg.
“Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, said it isn’t required to obtain a license or authorization to use “App Store” because the term is “unprotectable” and won’t be confused or unfairly compete with Apple’s App Store service, according to a filing yesterday in federal court in Oakland, California,” Gullo reports. “Amazon’s Appstore offering downloads of software for Android devices opened March 22.”
Gullo reports, “Apple’s lawsuit, filed March 18, should be thrown out and a court order confirming Amazon’s right to use the words should be issued, Seattle-based Amazon said. ‘Based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps, such as the app stores operated by Amazon and Apple,’ Amazon said in the filing.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Come up with your own name, damn leeches.
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