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Lawsuit compels RIM to swap BBX for 'BlackBerry 10'

...for its new operating system, after losing an early round in its trademark dispute with a small New Mexico software provider over the use of... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Steven Musil

Apple wins iPad trademark battle in Shanghai

...for the company. Apple and Proview have been engaged in a bitter trademark dispute for years now. Proview claims the Californian firm is violating its... Read more

24 February, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Apple iPads pulled from shelves in China, reports say

...Due to a trademark dispute between Apple and a Chinese company, Apple resellers in parts of... Read more

14 February, 2012 by Liau Yun Qing
Cisco's consumer flops beyond Flip

Cisco's consumer flops beyond Flip

...no PC connection required. Cisco ended up settling with Apple after a trademark dispute over the name arose, and the original iPhone went away rather... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Erica Ogg

Apple pursues EU trademark over Granny Smith logo

...record label Apple Corps announced that the two companies had settled their trademark dispute, with the Mac and iPad-maker emerging as the owner. The... Read more

15 March, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Apple may face iPad trademark battle in China

...For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Report: Apple in trademark dispute over iPad name on CNET News Read more

29 October, 2010 by Erica Ogg

MikeRoweSoft settles for an Xbox

Mike Rowe has settled out of court with Microsoft – for an Xbox, a holiday in Redmond and some training Read more

26 January, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Lindows opens subscriber information to Microsoft

Microsoft opponents who signed up for information on the latest competitor to Windows now find that their names and addresses have been handed over to the software giant Read more

15 January, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Creative MP3 strategy scuppered by trademark dispute

A trademark dispute has forced the European launch of Creative Technology's Nomad MP3... Read more

21 October, 1999 by Justin Pearse

Torvalds steps in to help Linux trademark dispute

An open-source organisation in Australia has called in the Linux founder to help stop a trademark challenge by a private company Read more

11 August, 2004 by Andrew Colley

Gmail returns to the UK

...address rather than @googlemail.com, after the company settled a long-running trademark dispute with a British research firm. On Tuesday, Google said that it... Read more

5 May, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Lindows-Microsoft battle cleared for trial

The rejection of an appeal by Microsoft means the two companies' trademark dispute will have its day in court later this year Read more

25 May, 2004 by Ina Fried

MikeRoweSoft bids fail to make the grade

...only the reserve price for an eBay auction of papers chronicling his trademark dispute with Microsoft Read more

3 February, 2004 by Paul Festa

Judge delays Lindows trial

...s 1992 lawsuit against Microsoft will come into play in the ongoing trademark dispute over the 'Windows' name Read more

4 March, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman
Cisco sues Apple over rights to iPhone name

Cisco sues Apple over rights to iPhone name

...confusion" between the two drinks. Under federal law, the loser in a trademark dispute can be forced to hand over any profits it received as... Read more

11 January, 2007 by Marguerite Reardon and Tom Krazit

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knapper

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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