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Fujitsu to sue Apple over 'iPad' name rights?

news article released on: 28 January, 2010

According to the NYTimes, Fujitsu will be suing Apple over the rights to the name iPad. In 2002, Fujitsu released a real-time, portable inventory-management device called the "iPAD," which was last updated in 2006. The iPAD runs with a "PXA 270 processor with Microsoft Windows CE .NET 5.0, together with a 802.11 b/g radio and Bluetooth v1.2." Companies such as Current Directions still ...

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#1 28 Jan 2010 @ 21:14
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Just putting an "i" in front of a word, e.g. iword shouldn't be a allowed a copyright, as was the case of anyhow, which was used in common everyday conversation, until a cigarette company had it copyrighted but people still used it, so a whole sentence had to be copyrighted. You may be the first to see my iword.
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#2 28 Jan 2010 @ 21:40
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All of this Copyright nonsense is just another way for these greedy companies to make an extra buck. They're basically Patent Trolls.
#3 28 Jan 2010 @ 21:43
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i hope fujitsu wins. apple sucks
#4 28 Jan 2010 @ 22:55
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Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
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#5 28 Jan 2010 @ 23:18
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I bet they will have the same problem when they release the iRobot.
#6 28 Jan 2010 @ 23:19
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Nonsense over names. Fujitsu should just stick to making Air Conditioners :)
#7 28 Jan 2010 @ 23:21
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Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.
#8 28 Jan 2010 @ 23:30
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Quote:
Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.
And which is that best mp3 player? Define best when it comes to mp3 playback...
#9 29 Jan 2010 @ 2:03
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I had an idea to put newspapers on portable screens years ago, I should have patented it.
#10 29 Jan 2010 @ 10:18
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O_O Another company suing another for copyright seriously this is like the fifth this month and its not even February yet between keeping Acta a secret Corporations love to be sue happy.
#11 29 Jan 2010 @ 15:20
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Government should charge them 1000X court fees to sort out these frivolous crap....
#12 30 Jan 2010 @ 4:22
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Quote:
Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.

Highly debatable. I fear that you've opened a can of worms, my friend...
#13 30 Jan 2010 @ 6:06
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Originally posted by mitcho89:
 i hope fujitsu wins. apple sucks
Same.

Apple pulls this kind of crap all the time. I hope they get a taste of their own spunk.
#14 30 Jan 2010 @ 6:23
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Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.

Highly debatable. I fear that you've opened a can of worms, my friend...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_fL1lPRt8

..."like" sound qaulity?
#15 30 Jan 2010 @ 8:02
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what a pointless bunch these companies are.. Fujitsu never even registered the name because somebody else had it before tham.. hahahahaha

This is like me sueing a writer who has the same name as me for using my name on their books (which I could do as I have exactly the same name as a famous author, and I'm 3 years older) .. but I would expect it go get laughed right out of court..

It's time the courts started taking a very firm line with these big business time wasting lawyers.. like how about a $100 million fine for being pointless bastards and wasting everybodys time and trouble.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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#16 30 Jan 2010 @ 14:03
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HEY FOOL, DONT STEAL MY NAME OR iSUE !!
#17 30 Jan 2010 @ 16:39
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Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.

Highly debatable. I fear that you've opened a can of worms, my friend...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_fL1lPRt8

..."like" sound qaulity?

I rather enjoyed that.
#18 30 Jan 2010 @ 18:13
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Originally posted by nintenut:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by cyprusrom:
 Apple should just name it iSuck, no worries, no one will contest that one...
At least they got the best mp3 player but that's about it.

Highly debatable. I fear that you've opened a can of worms, my friend...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_fL1lPRt8

..."like" sound qaulity?

I rather enjoyed that.
Foamy is awesome and his talents for that work rather well with the uber music store nazi. But then again he's more sane snob than nazi. LOL
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Ah modern gaming its like modern film only the watering down of fiction and characters is replaced with shallow and watered down mechanics, gimmicks and shiny-er "people".
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#19 03 Feb 2010 @ 4:11
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I do not care as long as Apple lower the price of its iPad. I may get one.
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