Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app name

Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by DougBTX on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:20AM (#2241889)

You've picked a bad article to make this point - if someone tried to re-brand OpenOffice as "MS Office" you can be sure that Microsoft would defend its trademarks, and you'd never see it on HN. But when Apple does the same, it is front page "news". Hardly a free pass.

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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by megaman821 on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:31AM (#2241914)

No it would be more like MS sues every software product with the word Office or Windows in it. Which they don't as evidenced by the existence of OpenOffice.

I am not trying to argue Microsoft is some white knight or anything else noble, just that Apple policies are worse but with better marketing.

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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by wisty on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:40AM (#2241933)

I'm guessing that "Office" was already in use. "Word" certainly was (i.e. Word Perfect). So "OpenWord" would be probably be fine. On the other hand, don't try making an "OpenExcel" or an "OpenPowerpoint".

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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by pitdesi on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:35AM (#2241919)

That's a great example actually... it's Open OFFICE, competing with Microsoft OFFICE, and surprisingly AFAIK Microsoft did nothing to defend that.

That being said, Apple isn't the only company going a bit overboard, as Facebook is making legal threats to LameBook, TeachBook, and PlaceBook

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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by megaman821 on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:42AM (#2241936)

That is partly my point, it is ridiculous no matter who is making the legal threats. The company making the threats should have no bearing on anything.

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