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."

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Google hasn't done something similar? They've removed apps for trademark and copyright claims. They've even ordered Microsoft to remove apps from the Windows Phone app store over trademarks to Youtube. But, hey, let's ignore that because we are Google fans.