Anonymous

Midlands

IT Developer

What next...?

Will Apple sue anyone who calls any item anything, as they have a claim to using 'groups of letters to descibe things'? It wouldn't suprise me.

This is getting silly, and can only happen because big companies like Apple can afford the expensive lawyers needed to battle such spurious cases.

It's the same argument as with patents. Big corporations patent obvious things, some of which pre-exist, but no-one can afford the court cases to argue with them.

Seems like the patent office and the trade-mark registration departments are both 'in bed' with big, rich, powerful companies.