blog.wired.com - 3/24/2009
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What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but if its name ended in "pod," it might attract the ire of Apple's shark-like legal team.
Apple's obsession with the blockbuster success of its iPod has
driven the corporation to chase
down many companies ...
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mobiletoday.co.uk - 3/26/2009
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mobiletoday.co.uk —
Discussions at final stages as dongle subsidy lands
Apple Orange will sell Apple laptops on its network...
from this summer, and will be the first company to subsidise Apple’s laptops with mobile broadband. A deal is understood to be close to completion, ...
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Apple and Orange finalise laptop deal
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Apple Lawyers Claim Dominion Over "Pod"
Gearlog —
... As Wired points out, the lawsuits thus far have largely focused on those products that use "pod" as a suffix, such as MyPodder, Video Pod and TightPod. But Apple has since branched out, taking aim at the questionably derivative Podium (which, one might point out, has the letter "i" in it, a vowel which Apple may or may not own). ...
Who owns the word "pod?"
The Apple Core —
... http://iphonedailyreport.com/images/assets/0007/0765/steve-jobs-and-the-jury_01.jpg The answer, obviously, is no one. No one can in fact “own” a particular word, bu you wouldn’t know that by the way Apple threatens and litigates products that use the word “pod” in their name. According to Wired the latest example is a company called ...
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