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Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs.Tiger Lawsuit
Art Vanderlay writes "Robert F. Young, a founder of Linux distributor Red Hat and now owner
of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Canadian football team, has offered Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs a
quick way out of a lawsuit by TigerDirect over the latest version of
Tiger. According to the Globe and Mail, Mr. Young
has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' historical use of the
word Tiger to Apple free of charge. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have
been around since 1869. '136 years ago we were called The Tigers,' Mr.
Young said. 'If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word tiger
with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us.'"
change the name to Liger!
"Mind over matter: If you don't mind, then it doesn't matter"
-1, Redundant.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
I want an exclusive trademark on the word "the". Sounds like a good name for my company. Any other company that tries to use that name will have to pay me money :-P
--LWM
"ARRRRGOOOOOOSS"
I'm going to trademark the work "trademark", so that companies will not be able to claim they have a TradeMark (tm) without paying me money.
Liger liger! burning bright
In the forests of the dynamite,
What immortal moon boots
Dare frame thy fearful brother?
Now I can sue all you biatches.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
{6E085F0D-9ACD-4317-A2EF-657F87B09A1C} Computers Inc.
Mozilla Fire-{E252FE02-495C-499f-B63D-07D8FF2AC4D0} Web Browser!
See there, guaranteed (virtually) to be unique from all other trademarks!!
A trademark used in one indstry has nothing to do with a trademark used in another industry; this is how Apple Computers can call itself "Apple", much to the displeasure of Apple Record Label.
I bet Apple Computer will be pretty pissed, though!
Hell, Tigers have a longer history with the term, and I'd hate to meet their lawyer in court...
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Hell, Tigers have a longer history with the term, and I'd hate to meet their lawyer in court...
They're gggrreeaat! - Tony
The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright...
This takedown notice is to inform you that under the recently passed Copyright For Life And All Futures Lives Into Perpetuity Plus Entiching All Heirs With Lawyers Act, you are in violation of the copyright of one William Blake.
Furthermore, the very use of the word "Immortal" should have clued you in that he was obviously speaking of his copyright, since Tygers obviously die.
Lastly, prior art of "Tyger" has nothing to do with "Tiger".
Prepare to hand over to our Goon Squad[tm] $58 Billion dollars in lost royalities -- or $3000 if you don't force us to defend our ridiculous claims of losses in court.
And never forget: The Government of the People, by the People, and for The People is also a copyrighted phrase.
Have a nice day! (also copyrighted!)
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Nothing says "Good Italian food in Canada" like 1447582!
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
14475 == laats
82 == eighttwo
so the restaurant is just 1337 5p34k for "lets eat two" I guess lots of fat people must go there.
Steve should go to Esso and put a Tiger in his tank, then head over to the convenience store and get a box of Kellogs cornflakes, then take them all to court...
Oh well, what the hell...
"OS X" infringes his distinctive name, causing confusion among mutants worldwide!
--- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
Microsoft is suing Anderson Windows for trademark infringement of the Windows name. And considering suing all other manufacturers of windows that use the trademarked word Windows in their name or company literature
Anderson is contemplating a name change to Anderson transparent apertures in hopes it will appease the monopolist and thus deftly avoid a legal smiting
Taking the initiative I want to google bomb Tiger direct by linking it to the name Butthead Vendor to Tiger Direct.
ANd here I'm linking Apple to Tiger and to Tiger Direct.
I urge you to join me in adding links. Put these in your sig for the next month so they are all over slashdot!
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Okay, what do apples have in common with computers?
I dunno, full of bugs?
In this case Tiger Direct couldn't know that Tiger was going to be used in the promotion of the product. Far from just promoting it as OS 10.4, they've made what normally would appear to be the internal codename a major part of the brand. And in the computer space, Tiger Direct clearly owns "Tiger." Their request that Apple be forced to change all their advertising at this point is proper, because that's exactly the kind of change they could have expected based on Apples past behavior.
Tiger Direct has been more than reasonable. You're saying they should have been suing Apple from the moment they could have found out Apple might have been using "Tiger" to refer to some element of their computer business internally. Is that really the world you want to live in? No, it isn't and you know it.
Tiger has the money to hire halfway competent lawyers, and they're going to mop the floor with Apple if it goes to trial. Which it won't. The real disturbing revealation of *this* particular story, is that the guy who's name appears on all of Redhat's documents doesn't know the law from stereo instructions.