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Litigation Against The Mobilix Mobile Unix Website

Posted by timothy on from the filthy-luchre dept.

powerset writes: "Mobilix has just posted a news item describing a legal challenge from the holder of the 'Asterix' and 'Obelix' trademarks. Despite widespread use of the '-ix' suffix as documented in the note, a quarter million dollars in damages and prison time are being threatened, and the note also mentions a possible connection to the SuSE case."

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  1. Anyone remember... by russotto · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...The Haagen-Dazs versus Fruzen-Gladze case? (I may have spelled both names wrong) In it a court ruled sensibly that Haagen-Dazs's trademark did NOT cover all possible made-up vaugely scandanavian-sounding names.

    This case is on the same level.