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What’s next, action against the estate of Philip K. Dick for giving the Nexus series a bad name? The irony of Google trying a passing-off claim over these names particularly stinks, since they ripped them off in the first place.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/07/google-ne...
I would suggest changing trademark law so a trademark cannot be a single word found in the dictionary. I.e. one could trademark: Acme Editor but not: Editor
An android variant named xxxdroid and you wonder Google is coming after you for name? Also I feel author is disingenuous when he says used Droid in Orphesdroid references to automation.
Does simply using the word "Droid" for an Android-related project count as trademark infringement? Can the free software project "F-Droid" [0] (Android App Installer) be sued for trademark infringement? If it is, it's bad news... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid
The problem is that he's making mobile apps with that name. Lucas Films' trademarks to "Droid" aren't relevant here, because those are for movies and nobody's going to confuse them with the Android OS.
That didn't keep them from going after davdroid (now davx5). Afair lucasarts was behind that.
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A license was acquired for the Motorola Droid use of the word "Droid" from Lucas Arts, so I would guess that the answer is yes.
That is insane.
Trademarks are one of the few pieces of IP that seem to make sense to me.
They protect consumers by letting the consumer trust a trademark is what they think it is, they aren't overly broad and they aren't automatic.
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Does simply using the word "Droid" for an Android-related project count as trademark infringement? Can the free software project "F-Droid" [0] (Android App Installer) be sued for trademark infringement? If it is, it's bad news... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid
From what I was told you can't use a similar name on a similar product or company, but if it's different enough it's ok. A friend had a few stores selling clothes with a name that was french for something I've forgotten. Then a large chain started selling and heavily marketing a perfume with the same name. My friend wanted to stop them using the name, but after a few rounds of lawyers he got nowhere because selling c…
That's ridiculous. Google shouldn't be suing you for that. Disney should. They own the trademark on the word "droid".