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Galileo Forced To Change Its name?

Posted by Hemos on from the the-joys-of-tradmark dept.

Kvasio writes "As several sites reported, the court of appeal in Munich (Germany) has ruled that EADS Astrium GmbH - a German unit of EU's satellite navigation local system could not name its products Galileo. Instead the Galileo International Technologies from Barbados was granted the name. Time to shift to "Copernicus navigation system" ?"

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  1. Mercator by jhdevos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would be my choice :)

    1. Re:Mercator by patdabiker · · Score: 1

      I assume I wasn't the only one who didn't know who or what Mercator was.

      Per Wikipedia, he was apparently a big map guy. Coined the term atlas and encouraged the development of the first atlas. Map making and math were his things. I think it's rather obscure, but cool too.

  2. whos running this ship by jago25_98 · · Score: 1, Offtopic



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    1. Re:whos running this ship by jdmetz · · Score: 1

      Why is this offtopic? Which do you think Galileo would rather have named after him, a global positioning system or a travel agency? It seems clear to me that the cooler tech lost the Galileo name.

  3. +5 funny by myukew · · Score: 1

    wow, we have like five posts here out of which 2 are "galileo was a heretic" trolls.

    Mod them funny!
    FYI: Not even the Pope himself believes that the earth is the middle of the universe...

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  4. same person, another name by MySt1k · · Score: 1

    Why not Galilei ?

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  5. Re:How about... by BLAG-blast · · Score: 1
    Firebird?

    It's already taken, how about firefox?

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  6. Kopernik by Madcapjack · · Score: 1

    Copernicus is Polish. Or did I miss the irony?

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    1. Re:Kopernik by Madcapjack · · Score: 1

      I wasn't talking about the spelling of Copernicus. I know that Kopernik is the Polish spelling. I assumed that Kopernik was culturally Polish though.

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  7. Ptolemy by erichill · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is a geocentric system after all.

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  8. Re:Finally by Snaller · · Score: 1

    They named it after a great scientific mind. Even the church eventually admitted they were wrong.

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