“Apple Inc., maker of the iPad tablet computer and the iPhone, was sued by New York publisher John T. Colby in federal court today for trademark infringement over its use of the term ‘iBooks,'” Chris Dolmetsch reports for Bloomberg.
“Colby bought in 2006 and 2007 the assets of various entities owned by New York publisher Byron Preiss, who had published more than 1,000 hardcover and paperback books under the ‘ibooks’ name starting in September 1999,” Dolmetsch reports.
“Apple has a trademark on the name ‘IBOOK’ for computers and once sold a personal computer known as the ‘iBook,’ according to the lawsuit,” Dolmetsch reports. “The Cupertino, California-based company never used the term as a designation for electronic books or an application for the delivery of electronic books until it began selling the iPad in April 2010, Colby said in the lawsuit.”
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