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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. Rendezvous? by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So can a company trademark single words in a foreign language? What do the French think of this? I'd think it'd be like trademarking a word such as "travel".

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  2. Re: Apple Sued Over Rendezvous Trademark by justforaday · · Score: 4, Interesting

    maybe apple should just go back to calling it zeroconf. that sounds so much cooler anyways...

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  3. Apple has done this before... by CptTripps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A few years back Apple decided to call their new internet service "iTools" a name that Tenon had a TM on for 2 years at that point. Apple's response? "We can both use it...they are different."

    I'm not sure if it was because of Tenon that Apple changed it to ".Mac" but it was a pretty shitty thing to do to Tenon. iTools is a great product.

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