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Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Apple is scheduled to go to trial with a startup to fight over a three-letter word: Pod. The trademark battle centers on independent entrepreneur Daniel Kokin, founder of startup Sector Labs, and his video projector in development called Video Pod. Apple had previously filed oppositions against Kokin's usage of 'Pod,' alleging that it would cause customers to confuse it with Apple's iPod products. ... Names that have come under fire include MyPodder, TightPod, PodShow, and even Podium. Sector Labs is the only company to go to trial with Apple over using the 'Pod' branding. Ana Christian, Kokin's lawyer, says the fight is about more than allowing small businesses to use 'Pod' in their product names. She noted a trend in the tech industry, in which large corporations have been attempting to assume ownership of ordinary words."
US patents, trademarks, gun laws, drug laws. When is the stupidity going to stop?
and we Americans really need to responsibly take out our trash before the whole planet's just one big corporate garbage pile. Funny how America's so big on democracy, but the truth evidently is that America's democracy is useless because corporations like Apple have so corrupted the American government, that there's no real actual accountability to the American people. Evidently, that there is a democracy is just a lie told to we Americans so we'll be more easily turned into mindless consumers. Isn't it amazing just how many Americans, especially affluent ones, will deny that there's even any real problems with corporate America?
Words to men, as air to birds.
LMI claims to have introduced the Bod Pod body fat measurement pod in 1994. You sit inside the egg shaped bod pod while a loudspeaker increases and decreases the volume of the pod. The change in pressure inside the pod as the volume of the pod is changed, determines the airspace remaining inside the pod after your body fills the pod up part way. The less airspace left inside the pod, the faster the pressure will rise as the loudspeaker pushes into the pod. The airspace remaining in the pod minus the volume of the pod gives the volume of your body. A scale determines your weight. Your weight and volume determine your density, and that is used to estimate your body fat. Fudge factors have to be used to account for the varying characteristics of the air in your lungs and the layer of warm air near your skin and especially trapped between your clothes or bathing suit or hair. This system is less trouble than the traditional method of determining body density by weighing a person while under water. See bodpod.com
president of The Management Group, Inc.
And lawyers are employed by managers.
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.