[X4U] Tiger fight

[Andy Swanson]

This is the part that gets me: Jobs announced Tiger when? Wasn't it 
last summer? Tiger Direct has had something like nine months to say, 
"Hey! They're infringing on our trademark." When do they finally get 
around to suing? The day before release. If they were really concerned 
about their trademark, wouldn't they have done something sooner? It 
stinks of publicity stunt to me (or worse, a frivolous lawsuit).

As far as this search engine thing is concerned, why would anyone be 
searching for computer hardware under the search term "Tiger" unless 
they already knew about Tiger Direct? If anything, I'd think it might 
help them by getting people to put the word computer and the word tiger 
together in a search engine.


   Andy

On Apr 29, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Richard Nagle wrote:

> Just when you thought it was safe,
> hey, maybe next year, when Bobcat comes out <grin>
> somebody will be waiting for that as well.
>
> Rick
>
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> On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Peter Saint James wrote:
>
>>
>> 	I ran across the following item that indicates that someone is 
>> trying to keep Apple from using the word Tiger.  I doubt they will 
>> prevail.  It's too generic a word.  The point about search engines is 
>> interesting.  I wonder if this will become a concept of law.
>>
>> 									Peter
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>>
>>
>> Apple sued over use of 'Tiger', injunction sought
>> Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 4:05pm
>> 	
>> Apple has been sued by Tiger Direct, Inc. for allegedly infringing 
>> its trademark with the Mac OS X 'Tiger', according to Bloomberg.
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