Amazon Defends "App Store" Use

[Kenjitsuka]

"as has happened with trademarks like aspirin, heroin, thermos and zipper."
Someone had a trademark on Heroin?
Hmm, makes sense if you think back long enough when it was a medical drug instead of a hard drug. But still funny

 

[Shamus Young]

Hey Amazon, isn't it true that you STILL hold a PATENT on "one-click" shopping, which you continue to defend in court?

Burn in hell, you rotten hypocrites. You're nothing more than a litigation bully, getting a bit of your own medicine for a change.

 

[Nick Holmgren]

Could be worse. They could be trying to hold the trademark on meat store.

 

[Baresark]

This is stupid. Of course they are going to try and say Amazon can't use it. I don't own anything "i" at all, nor do I use Apple products. I don't even use the term app, I find it annoying, to be honest.

As Gamasutra notes, U.S. trademark law allows trademarks to become "genericized" and sometimes unprotectable, as has happened with trademarks like aspirin, heroin, thermos and zipper.

Copyright/trademark laws are a big problem, and at no point should anyone be able to trademark "app store" or "one-click" shopping. Though, in all fairness, I personally have not seen anyone else use once click shopping like Amazon does. But that still doesn't mean they can have it all to their selves.

Hey Amazon, isn't it true that you STILL hold a PATENT on "one-click" shopping, which you continue to defend in court?

Burn in hell, you rotten hypocrites. You're nothing more than a litigation bully, getting a bit of your own medicine for a change.

It only stands to reason that any company that thinks it has a great idea would do their best to hold onto the rights for it. This is really the best kind of fight though, two bullies duking it out while the rest of the playground watches and cheers for both of them to get their faces beat in.

 

[SaintWaldo]

That seems a rude way to pay back Apple for licensing One-Click Checkout.

Hey Amazon, isn't it true that you STILL hold a PATENT on "one-click" shopping, which you continue to defend in court?

Burn in hell, you rotten hypocrites. You're nothing more than a litigation bully, getting a bit of your own medicine for a change.

Oh, yeah, of course someone is already at the picnic table when I get here...

 

[Plurralbles]

apple can go fuck itself. Amazon should win this.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Now I want to open a shaved ice stand and call it "The App Store."

 

[utopaline]

Hey Amazon, isn't it true that you STILL hold a PATENT on "one-click" shopping, which you continue to defend in court?

Burn in hell, you rotten hypocrites. You're nothing more than a litigation bully, getting a bit of your own medicine for a change.

one-click is not a word, or an abbreviation of a word, plus if they patented it then it's theirs. it's like cell companies all using different terms for pre paid cell phones ex. pay-as-you-go is used by rogers in Canada, and another company can not use the same term in Canada. app store would be like trying to patent "shoe Store" or "book store"
just sayin

 

[Grond Strong]

We live in a disgustingly greedy world. If the early court judges of this country had this case presented before them, they would have first laughed hysterically and then locked the party responsible away in the stocks for wasting their time.

Steve Jobs in the stocks? That might send a decent message to the next corporation who decides to sue someone for looking at them wrong.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Hands off, Jobs. Seriously, stick with your bloody "i" prefix and call it the iStore if you want to get your protective panties in a bunch. If it was called the iStore (or something original, y'know?) and then Amazon blatantly copied could I understand.

At the moment with the rise of smart phones that happen to all have apps, nobody wants to overcomplicate things across users (Android, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry) by throwing individual names that aren't even warranted or needed. Right now we're sitting at a happy medium where everything is pretty interchangeable and easy to communicate across large spans of different consumers. Apple users, for instance, would be confused as hell if an Android owner said they downloaded something off "The Grid." Well WTF is "The Grid?" Is it an app?

So either live in generic land or come up with your own "app store" name to (TM), just like "The Grid[footnote]"The Grid" is completely made up and up for the taking, by the way...[/footnote]."

 

[harvz]

i find it funny that apple have been trying to set themselves in the public eye as being good and microsoft being evil, are now pulling this shit. microsoft literally gives things away with the sole intent of providing helpful programs like the visual studio express and even programming modules such as Iron Python to assist new developers...and apple cant even give away the term "app store" which is generic as hell.

hmm, why does apple appear to be acting very similar to another company who's nemesis is microsoft *cough* sony *cough*?

 

[matt87_50]

Apple got served, I agree 100% with Amazon, hopefully common sense wins through.

 

[MonkeyPunch]

Supermarket ?
Shoe Store ?
Pizzeria ?

Both companies need a reality check. Apple for the story mentioned above, but Wallmart too for their one-click BS.
So both should loose their cases in my opinion, it's just getting a wee-bit ridiculous with what companies are trying to call their own and prohibit others using.

 

[Disthron]

I hope Amazon wins, but really only becouse I don't like apple, or steve jobs.

 

[HBaskerville]

More than anything it strikes me as Amazon being intellectually lazy. Rather than be creative (or hire creative people) they choose the lowest common denominator and copied Apple outright. Android came up with "Market". They at least tried to differentiate themselves from Apple in that way.

 

[hyperdrachen]

Apple doesn't want the part of it's user base that's easily distracted by shiny packaging getting confused between App being short for application, and App as a cute pun for Application/Apple.