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Judge Refuses To Grant Apple An Injunction Against Amazon’s Use Of “App Store”

July 7, 2011 by Michael Berkens

A judge has just rejected Apple’s claim for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon from using the term App Store

This comes out of the case where Apple suited Amazon for trademark infringement saying that Amazon improperly used Apple’s “App Store” name.

Amazon argued that the term is generic and therefore not protectable.

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton did not agree that the term is purely generic, however ruled that Apple:

“Has not established “a likelihood of confusion” with Amazon’s services to get an injunction”

“The court assumes without deciding that the ‘App Store’ mark is protectable as a descriptive mark that has arguably acquired secondary meaning.”

“The court does not agree with Amazon that the mark is purely generic, for the reasons argued by Apple, but also does not find that Apple has shown that the mark is suggestive, as there appears to be no need for a leap of imagination to understand what the term means.”

The judge set a trial date for October 2012.

Filed Under: Legal

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. my global website of links and amazing domains says

    July 7, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    ok, but Amazon may use a better name for its App Store

  2. Gnanes says

    July 7, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    Lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.

  3. RAYY.co says

    July 8, 2011 at 9:44 am

    “…ok, but Amazon may use a better name for its App Store…”

    Amazon should use a better name called Ama Store.


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