“A U.S. judge denied Apple Inc’s attempt to quickly stop online retailer Amazon.com Inc. from using the ‘App Store’ name, according to a court document,” Dan Levine reports for Reuters.
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“Apple, the maker of best-selling iPhones and iPad tablets, filed a trademark lawsuit saying that Amazon has improperly used Apple’s App Store name to solicit software developers throughout the United States,” Levine reports. “U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton did not agree that the term is purely generic, according to an order released on Wednesday. However Apple has not established ‘a likelihood of confusion’ with Amazon’s services to get an injunction, Hamilton wrote.”
Levine reports, “In an earlier ruling on Wednesday, Hamilton set a trial date for October 2012.”
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