Calibre beta announced

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Post by brettgoulder » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 3:42 AM UTC

Calibre beta announced
calibreapp.com

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by brettgoulder » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 3:43 AM UTC

This looks awesome! Really useful for front-end devs.

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by nperez » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:30 AM UTC

Was confused due to the name being shared with a very popular e-book (and e-reader) management app: http://calibre-ebook.com/ . This looks like an interesting browser performance analytics service

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by trothamel » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:31 AM UTC

I was a bit confused by this, since I usually associate "calibre" with the e-book creation/conversion software with that name.

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by teacup50 » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 4:40 AM UTC

trothamel wrote: post #4

I was a bit confused by this, since I usually associate "calibre" with the e-book creation/conversion software with that name. http://calibre-ebook.com/

Came here to say the same thing; I excitedly thought it was an announcement for a new Calibre beta.

Looks like Calibre also holds a trademark: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:h6j...

There seems to be a high likelihood of confusion given that both are software products, but IANAL.

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by pjscott » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

teacup50 wrote: post #5

trothamel wrote: post #4

I was a bit confused by this, since I usually associate "calibre" with the e-book creation/conversion software with that name. http://calibre-ebook.com/

Came here to say the same thing; I excitedly thought it was an announcement for a new Calibre beta. Looks like Calibre also holds a trademark: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:h6j... There seems to be a high likelihood of confusion given that both are software products, but IANAL.

I thought the same but was not excited, because Calibre is almost completely perfect already. If anybody reading this ever wants to convert ebooks from one format to another, or turn web pages into ebooks, or any such thing, definitely check it out.

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by notatoad » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:06 AM UTC

how hard is it to google your app's name before releasing it? or do you know and just not care that you're taking somebody else's name?

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by johnb » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:17 AM UTC

teacup50 wrote: post #5

trothamel wrote: post #4

I was a bit confused by this, since I usually associate "calibre" with the e-book creation/conversion software with that name. http://calibre-ebook.com/

Came here to say the same thing; I excitedly thought it was an announcement for a new Calibre beta. Looks like Calibre also holds a trademark: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:h6j... There seems to be a high likelihood of confusion given that both are software products, but IANAL.

I think the trademark issue should be OK.

My understanding is that you can have overlap in trademarked names when it's in very different markets, but IANAL

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by StevePerkins » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:24 AM UTC

Oh, I thought that the e-book software was launching a mobile/tablet version or something. That would have excited me far more than yet another "me-too" analytics vendor, playing in a niche somewhere between Google Analytics and New Relic.

Why on earth didn't they Google their own proposed name before releasing this? It's one thing to use the same name as another entity in a different field, but to rip-off a name that is already a well known software package too? They'll be lucky to make the first page of Google search results for their own name.

Re: Calibre beta announced

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Post by yohui » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:27 AM UTC

teacup50 wrote: post #5

trothamel wrote: post #4

I was a bit confused by this, since I usually associate "calibre" with the e-book creation/conversion software with that name. http://calibre-ebook.com/

Came here to say the same thing; I excitedly thought it was an announcement for a new Calibre beta. Looks like Calibre also holds a trademark: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:h6j... There seems to be a high likelihood of confusion given that both are software products, but IANAL.

Link expired. Try: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77660789&caseType=SERIAL_N...

IANAL but I don't think the trademark is an issue. Might make it a bit hard to search for, though, when "calibre app" is dominated by calibre e-book software.