Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names

An anonymous reader writes with this bit of trademark absurdity from geek.com: "Ravensburger is a German gaming company that specializes in jigsaw puzzles, but has also expanded into other areas such as children's books and games. The company owns the trademark to a board game called 'Memory' and has demanded Apple stop offering apps that have the word 'memory' in their title or as a keyword associated with an app. It may seem ludicrous such a common word can be trademarked, but apparently this is a valid claim as Apple is now serving notices to app developers. The choice an infringing app developer has is to either rename their app or remove it from the App Store."

Comments

Re:This Gamasutra Article is Misleading.

[Actually, I do RTFA]

First off: Apple is only having people remove the apps in countries where the copyright is valid.

As an affected developer (actually from 3 years ago), I can tell you that it is a worldwide removal.

Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar

[TheSpoom]

Came here to say this too. Check "Allow Unknown Sources" in Settings, open .apk, install app. Perfectly allowable within the default Android setup, and yes, this is the setup that 95% of carriers use. (I've heard of some carriers taking away the Unknown Sources checkbox, but to my knowledge it's very uncommon.)