“Apple modified its lawsuit against Amazon this week, accusing the giant e-tailer of infringing its ‘App Store’ trademark in new advertising for the Kindle Fire tablet,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“‘Amazon began altering its use of the infringing mark by omitting or de-emphasizing the use of the ‘for Android’ suffix to the ‘Amazon Appstore’ phrase,’ Apple charged in the amended complaint filed Wednesday in a California federal court,” Keizer reports.
“Apple submitted a trademark application for ‘App Store’ with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2008,” Keizer reports. “That application is pending, awaiting resolution of opposition from Microsoft. Apple tied Amazon’s change to “Amazon Appstore” to the launch of the Kindle Fire, the 7-in. tablet that went on sale this week.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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