Microsoft stopped Apple's App Store’s registering trademark application

January 12 pm news, Microsoft is to the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) submitted against the application to ban Apple "App Store" application for a registered trademark.

Microsoft believes that Apple's "App Store" brand names are too general and should not be protected. "Apple tried to monopolize 'App Store' this phrase to shop for their own applications." Microsoft said in objection to the application.

Microsoft believes that this behavior is ridiculous monopoly, "there was strong evidence, 'App Store' is a common name, refers to the application of a provision store."

Microsoft also lists these "indisputable facts." For example, according to the dictionary definition of terms, App Store are generic and vocabulary, and Apple does in the application document, "App Store" is a "shop."

Microsoft said that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the past are prohibited to apply a similar combination of words as a trademark, such as "The Computer Store", "Log Cabin Homes" or "Candy Bouquet" and so on.

Microsoft believes, App Store in the common usage of the middle finger is the "app store." Microsoft to Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs)'s words illustrates this: Steve Jobs to comment on Android, it has repeatedly in order to "app store" to refer to Google, Verizon and Vodafone's application store.

Microsoft, with other companies, Microsoft had also hoped to App Store applications for their own store, but "Apple has insisted that this usage is a violation of their rights, and to use the name 'App Store' to send business the letter. "This forced other manufacturers choose to launch application store for other names, such as Google use the Android Market, RIM to use App World, Microsoft is using the Marketplace, use Nokia Ovi Store, Hewlett-Packard to use App Catalog, while the Samsung is using Samsung Apps . But the major media still use the "app store" to describe these applications store.

Microsoft concluded: Under the current law, Apple's App Store can not be applied for trademark application stores, also can not use the advantage of the early success of the application to prevent other companies using the generic title of the store.

Jobs has always attached great importance to the protection of the name of Apple A1148 products, for example, he has been trying to defend Apple "Pad" and "Pod" the exclusive right to use the two terms.

But the industry believes that a fair point of view, if "The Computer Store" unable to apply for a registered trademark, "App Store" application should not be approved. United States Patent and Trademark Office has corrected the former, the latter outcome, remains to be seen.

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