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Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Post by Aeolun »

danielrpa wrote: post #68
segfaultbuserr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In many, if not most, cases yes. This isn't like the normal patent troll nonsense. This is to avoid confusion in the marketplace. Consumers expect a certain level of quality and assume a certain origin when seeing particular words in a product name or brand. If someone sells an electric car under the "Teslan" brand, consumers could think it comes from Tesla - not only Tesla wouldn't be too happy, but the consumer cou…

You cannot reasonably believe that Orpheusdroid and Android are the same thing.

Tesla and teslan are a bad equivalent. Tesla and Orpheusla is closer. Just because they end the same way it’s not the same thing.

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

#82

Post by agustif »

Macha wrote: post #74
mattmanser wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough imo? Might be your long held personal email or whatever, but it also looks like a scam URL.

So any Scottish people with macX names cannot use their email or name in the app store? This is the origin of the mac name too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)

rid-iCoulous..

(Hope I don't get sued too)

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

#83

Post by Aeolun »

mikro2nd wrote: post #66
john_alan wrote: post #2

“Don’t be evil”

That ship sailed a long time ago. Please just leave it to die instead of trying to resurrect it any time Google fucks up.

It’s just that there was a time when it actually seemed to be true. We cannot let it go because something so promising was extinguished.

I can see how it’s a bit annoying, but I can also see how people cannot keep but bring it up.

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

#84

Post by z92 »

mksreddy wrote: post #7

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.

This. Knew there's more to it than what the title implies.

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

#85

Post by LoSboccacc »

nix23 wrote: post #80

Dear Google, Android and Droid exist much longer than your crappy OS: >The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 >The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas in the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction Maybe Disney should sue you too right? And maybe the State of Greece because it's derived work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andro…

this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Post by Macha »

JdeBP wrote: post #76
Macha wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So any Scottish people with macX names cannot use their email or name in the app store? This is the origin of the mac name too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)

I suspect that using will@macdonald.com might have come with an extra set of problems all of its own in this particular case. (-: * https://apple.com/uk/legal/intellectual-property/guidelinesf... * http://macdonald.com./ * https://trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/733918...

Europe's top IP body has found McDonald's does not have an exclusive right to "Mc" or "Mac", even in the realm of fast food because of its status as a common name component: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49254551

Even in the the US where MacX or McX is a foreign construct, there have been legal cases where people named McDonald/MacDonald are allowed name their restaurants after themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_legal_cases#The_r...

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Post by nix23 »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #85
nix23 wrote: post #80

Dear Google, Android and Droid exist much longer than your crappy OS: >The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 >The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas in the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction Maybe Disney should sue you too right? And maybe the State of Greece because it's derived work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andro…

this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

>this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

>The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas

So first...google is NOT the Copyright owner of "Droid", second the Android OS was named after an already existing Word in the same domain.

EDIT:

He wrote that in his own Post and from my point he is right:

> "Droid" is a dictionary word and first coined in 1952 by a American science fiction author.

    Quote:
    Droid: Clipping of android. Coined by American science fiction author Mari Wolf in Robots of the World! Arise! (1952), and popularised by the film Star Wars (1977).

    Droid is a trademark of "Lucas Films" now Disney since circa 1990.
    Possible that Google has licensed "Droid" from Lucas now Disney for using in android

    "Android" itself is a dictionary word.

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Post by schappim »

shallowthought wrote: post #88

They just have to establish a history of suing people for using that word because part of keeping your copyright is showing that you have fought for it in court.

However this dispute is primarily about trademarks and not copyright.

Re: Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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Post by rozab »

nix23 wrote: post #87
LoSboccacc wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

>this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment >The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas So first...google is NOT the Copyright owner of "Droid", second the Android OS was named after an already existing Word in the same domain. EDIT: He wrote that in his own Post and from my point he is right: > "Droid" is a dictionary word and first coined in 1952 by a American science fiction author. Quote: Droid:…

Trademark law and copyright law are completely different. Stop talking about copyright.
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