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Apple Sued Over Rendezvous Trademark

Posted by pudge on from the i-sue-you-sue-we-all-sue dept.

bdsesq writes "The Register is reporting that Tibco is suing Apple over the name 'Rendezvous'. Tibco has owned the name since 1994. It seems that Apple doesn't want to pay what Tibco wants."

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  1. Re:Rendezvous? by speechpoet · · Score: 4, Funny
    I suspect the French hold anyone in disdain who doesn't reserve the word "rendezvous" for one of the following meanings:
    • moonlit trysts on a Paris rooftop between a bitter nihilist revolutionary fugitive and his naive yet somehow worldly girlfriend, leading to their violent deaths in a bloody shootout with the gendarmes as their bullet-riddled bodies plunge into the Seine.
    • musketeers, fleeing Richelieu's spies, furtively exchanging the princess's ransom with a man they believe to be a lowly messenger but who reveals himself to be - mon dieu! est-ce que c'est possible? - the true king himself!
    • the moment when the melted chocolate merges with the whipped cream, freeing the aroma of the cognac and reminding the palate ever so delicately of the bitterness of the foie gras that began the meal, only 14 hours auparavant.
  2. Simple solution by McAddress · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just rename it iRendezvous.

  3. Whats with that name, anyway... by fok · · Score: 3, Funny

    I cant even sey 'rendezvous'!!!

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    1. Re:Whats with that name, anyway... by MacGod · · Score: 3, Funny
      I cant even sey 'rendezvous'!!!

      That's OK, you can't even spell "say". Or "can't" for that matter.

      Incidentally, it's pronounced "Ron-day-voo". If you want to put a proper French sound to it, roll the "R"

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  4. Re: Apple Sued Over Rendezvous Trademark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh what planet? Somebody needs to inform the... what are you calling yourselves? Nerds? Whatever you call yourselves, somebody needs to inform you that names like "zeroconf" and "mozilla" are not good. They are not cool. They are not useful or acceptable.

    Losers.

  5. Of course they can. English words too! by werdna · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, like Apple, owned by Apple Computers, for computers. Like Apple, owned by Apple Records, for records.

    But NOT Apple, for pie!

    Like Be, for operating systems. But probably NOT for philosophical services.

    So long as the mark is used in a distinctive, non-descriptive fashion, the mark can become proprietary on the day it is first used in commerce.

  6. Rendez vous! by MainframeKiller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny thing, "rendez vous" also means "surrender!"

    Now, before you make jokes about France and surrender, I'm not French!

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  7. Re:No confusion by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will Apple's use of Rendezvous be confusing to people who are familiar with TIBCO's use of Rendezvous? The answer is clearly no: TIBCO's Rendezvous is a messaging solution that's part of their enterprise blah-blah-ware system. Apple's Rendezvous is a network configuration and service advertisement technology.

    As someone who's had to struggle with (Tibco) Rendezvous documentation, let me assure you that confusion is very likely even if you've never even heard of Apple's Rendezvous.

  8. Once again, let's not jump to any conclusions! by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 3, Funny
    OK, OK, it looks bad, but come on. I don't think we should hasten to blame Apple for this, even though somebody else owns the trademark. As one of the great trademark and patent attorneys of the 20th century, Gustav Senkavoy, of the Copenhagen University of Law, was fond of saying over and over again, in the years after his retirement when he could be found wandering the Fluffestrasse talking to himself, "Trademark....Shmademark! Ho ho!"

    In fact, there are lots of ways that these things happen, and most of them are documented in the 1998 book, Hoo Boy! Here We Go Again!: Apple's Purity Explained To Its Critics Again by the Apple Board of Directors (with a foreward by the Virgin Mary). Time and again, when viewed through any objective lens, the bottom line turns out to be that Apple is incapable of wrong, and that covers both earthly and heavenly law. If the space-time continuum puckers just long enough for an exception to this rule, the elephants who bear the world on their shoulders will have sneezing fits, so don't even go there.

  9. Re:Rendezvous? by chrispy666 · · Score: 4, Funny
    you forgot :

    my foot having a rendez-vous with your ass, sacrebleu.

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  10. Re:Rendezvous? by speechpoet · · Score: 2, Funny
    I also forgot...
    • Zut alors! It seems I left the 'yphen out of rendez-vous!
  11. Re:Rendezvous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Writing stuff like "macro$$shit" just make you look like a fucktard.

    Unlike writing "fucktard."