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ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar'

Posted by timothy on from the because-scholarship-is-all-about-trademarks dept.

headisdead writes "John Batelle is noting that 'The American Chemical Society yesterday filed a complaint against Google, claiming the new Google Scholar infringes on its own product, called SciFinder Scholar.' Fairly typical subscription vs. free dispute, but with intellectual property issues thrown in for good measure."

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  1. Language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Copywrite the dictionary
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit!

    1. Re:Language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Step 0: Learn to spell copyright

    2. Re:Language by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny
      seems people can't tell the diffrence between "SciFinder Scholar" and "google Scholar", caus you know SciFinder sounds sooo much like google, they both have a single e in them!!
      Next up:
      • Dell Computer vs Gateway Computer
      • House of Pancakes vs. House of Carpets (their products sound AND taste the same)
      • Tom Cruise vs Tom Hanks
      • Tom Hanks vs Tom Arnold
      • Shannon Doherty vs Midland Doherty
      • Chemical Bank vs the ACS over the use of the word Chemical
      • Ford Motor Co vs General Motors
      • General Motors vs General Foods
      • General Foods vs General Tire
      • General Tire vs Goodyear Tire
      • Goodyear Tire vs BF Goodrich Tire
      • The Goodyear Blimp vs Roseanne Barr
      • McDonalds vs anyone singing "Old McDonald Had a Farm"
      • Ford suing anyone with an "F" in their stock symbol (Ford's stock symbol is "F")
      • SCO suing anyone with a stock symbol with an S, or a C, or an O, or an X (Hence Daimler-Chrysler - DCX)
      • ABC suing NBC - 2 letters the same out of 3
      • NBC suing CBS - 2 letters the same out of 3
      • CBS suing PBS - 2 letters the same out of 3
      • SCO suing CBS - 2 letters the same out of 3
      Anyone want to add more?
    3. Re:Language by Crusty+Cracker · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think he was trying to avoid copyright issues.

  2. Re:HEY, THAT'S MY WORD by SEE · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sorry, Word Thief® is a registered trademark of the American Plagarists Guild. Unauthorized use is, in an acknowledged irony, forbidden.

    If you wish to avoid lawsuits, you may join the Guild. Just send us a photocopied Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America membership form with a check made out to cash. (We couldn't be bothered to come up with our own form, and over 90% of our members have professional access to the NG/CWA form anyway . . . )