Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 23, 2009 @08:00AM from the overly-litigious dept.

moogied writes "SparkFun.com, a electronics component provider, has been sent a cease and desist letter by Sparc in response to the lengthy trademark process that SparkFun is participating in. The letter states 'Because the dominant portion of the SparkFun mark, namely, SPARK, is phonetically identical and nearly visually identical to SI's SPARC mark, and because it is used in connection with identical goods, we believe confusion is likely to occur among the relevant purchasing group.' SparkFun.com has provided the entire contents of the letter, with a breakdown of points it feels are most relevant."

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And to add to the misery... by gandhi_2 · 2009-10-23 08:10 · Score: 5, Funny

...slashdot readers are bringing SparkFun.com to it's knees as we speak.
Stand back, SPARC, we'll take care of this!

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I think it just highlights by bugs2squash · 2009-10-23 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

That the dominant part of SPARC is not fun.

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Re:well now by jiminizer · 2009-10-23 10:44 · Score: 5, Funny

In other news, a number of large companies have suffered downtime recently from switching from data center servers to Arduinos for their mission critical applications.