{"id":1044,"date":"2011-03-22T00:34:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2011-03-22T00:34:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:34:13","slug":"apple-sparks-lawsuit-with-amazon-over-app-store-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sparks Lawsuit with Amazon Over &#8220;App Store&#8221; Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iTunes App Store is without a doubt the largest mobile app   market around, offering hundreds of thousands of applications available   for purchase and download for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.\u00c2\u00a0 Apple,  knowing that the name recognition of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153App Store\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has grown  throughout the years, happens to have put a trademark on the exact  phrase. Considering this, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise that the  company hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been  thrilled by Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of the word\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Appstore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  to describe the  company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s developer program \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and upcoming portal for  selling Google  Android applications. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-21\/apple-sues-amazon-com-over-use-of-app-store-trademark.html?cmpid=yhoo\">Bloomberg<\/a> has reported that  Apple officially filed a lawsuit against Amazon for trademark infringement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while you could argue that Amazon is using Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s language to  attract  developers to its program, I think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have a hard time   convincing anyone that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any real confusion here. Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s   Appstore is designed for Android apps, not iOS apps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 which means users  won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be  able to download any items from Amazon that run on your  iPhone, nor any applications from Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s store\u00c2\u00a0 that are able to run on  Android devices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tapscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/appstore-300x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably a much larger issue here about whether companies   should be able to trademark broad descriptive phrases such as App Store,   or 1-click checkouts.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, though, it should be interesting to  see how the lawsuit  affects Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to launch its mobile app  portal that looked to spark a storm on the multitude of Android devices  available.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAppstore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was set to open to the public as soon as tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iTunes App Store is without a doubt the largest mobile app market around, offering hundreds of thousands of applications available for purchase and download for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.\u00c2\u00a0 Apple, knowing that the name recognition of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153App Store\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has grown throughout the years, happens to have put a trademark on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[350,188,106,119,356,354,357,294,51,53,132,154,351,355,358,352,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}