Apple Ipod: Trademark Issues

I just read this in Maximum PC, December 2005 issue that "sellers of iPod-related accessories were recently forced to remove the music-device's trademarked name from product names and website URLs. Thus, iPodlounge.com, for example, must now be called iLounge.com. Sellers were also" told how they can refer to Apple products, "...including the demand that the iPod always be referred to as an Apple iPod Device."How about that? I always thought that Microsoft would be the first to enforce something like this for their trademarked names... haha.. go Apple.. [N]FSource: Maximum PC, December 2005, Page 12

Edited November 19, 2005 by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG (see edit history)

I'm sure Mircosoft is cookin' something up.

Wow, this is really weird. You have to say this instead of saying the 'iPod' word. It's like.. becoming some technical term or something like that. Weird indeed.But why is Apple doing this? What can they gain from it? It's just like their trademark stuff, right?

Ugh. Apple's made great stuff in the past, but lately they've been making really bad ones...like this. Is Steve Jobs being exposed to lead or something that he's getting this dumb?

Wow, this is really weird. You have to say this instead of saying the 'iPod' word. It's like.. becoming some technical term or something like that. Weird indeed.

 

But why is Apple doing this? What can they gain from it? It's just like their trademark stuff, right?

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I guess it is trademark stuff... like for example, I make an MP3 player called a ... "uPod". Sure, I have all legal rights to that trademark. If I owned "upod.com" and "upodaccessories.com" then there would be no problem since I own them. But I wouldn't really like "uPod Sock", a product NOT made by uPod, Inc. to be using a trademark of mine without authorization.

 

I wish everything could just be under "fair usage" licenses and such... where as long as you use it "fairly", it's fine.

 

I'm sure Mircosoft is cookin' something up.

Nah... lots of sites would have to go down if they suddenly ristricted use of "Windows". What would you have to call it? A "Microsoft Windows Operating System"?

 

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My god. This is so stupid. iPod has become an instantly recognisable symbol. The way it's spelt, the ingenuity of the iPod's design. It's brought fame to Apple. All these iPod fan sites and communities must have boosted Apple's sales. Now that none of them can name themselves after the iPod, they will be no connection to the iPod in their name, and nothing to indicate that they are iPod related. To me, it seems like Apple backstabbing its faitful followers.

My god. This is so stupid. iPod has become an instantly recognisable symbol. The way it's spelt, the ingenuity of the iPod's design. It's brought fame to Apple.

All these iPod fan sites and communities must have boosted Apple's sales. Now that none of them can name themselves after the iPod, they will be no connection to the iPod in their name, and nothing to indicate that they are iPod related. To me, it seems like Apple backstabbing its faitful followers.

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Here is your bill for the Apple logo... it will require you to pay license fees in order to keep it. Welcome to Apple.

 

Yes, that was sarcasm... but yeah, I think it was the 3rd parties that made the "Apple iPod Device" what it is today... I mean, who wants to have a website called "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;?

 

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