Apple Files for U.S. Trademarks on ‘Mountain Lion’

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Trademark lawsuits are part of the nature of Apple it seems either by design or happenstance. A good example would be the latest application for a trademark on the names OS X Mountain Lion and Mountain Lion. Both names are part of the next release of the company’s newest operating system. The rub is Apple is just getting around to filing them as trademarks.

OS X Mountain Lion is of course the name of Apple’s next major release of OS X. It was originally announced on February 16, 2012 and is scheduled for release this month.
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Everyone knows mountain lions don't have any money, they'll just sue every zoo that displays them and any schools tht use it as a mascot.
 
The 'rub' is that it's normal for a company to secure the trademark for a name before the product is announced, not after it has been announced for release. Horse first, then the cart.
 
I need to trademark all 4 leg dead and alive species on this planet quick
 
Dear Apple: Please stop litigating at the cost of innovating. If you spent half the resources on R&D that you do on Strike Team Apple you could've had an original product/idea by now.
 
MajorDomo said:
The 'rub' is that it's normal for a company to secure the trademark for a name before the product is announced, not after it has been announced for release. Horse first, then the cart.
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Who care when they file for a trademark, all I see here is a fa**** that loves to pay a hundred dollars for an upgrade, when they could be spending only twenty.
 
MajorDomo said:
The 'rub' is that it's normal for a company to secure the trademark for a name before the product is announced, not after it has been announced for release. Horse first, then the cart.
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To quote The Princess Bride.. "I do not think that word means what you think it means.."

idioms.thefreedictionary.com said:
There's the rub. (old-fashioned) also Therein lies the rub. (old-fashioned)
something that you say when you are explaining what the difficulty is in a particular situation

Example: You can't get a job unless you have experience. And there's the rub - how do you get experience if you can't get a job?
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So, where is the difficulty in this situation?

All it says to me is that they were late filing their Trademark paperwork, I am sure that they are not the only company that has ever done that in history.. Perhaps they are being more careful in the discovery process of worldwide trademark before filing the paperwork to avoid another "iPad" situation.
 
When there's nothing left worth arguing about, at least we'll always have the usage of our language to nitpick at one another over.
 
No Apple will sue parks in California for posting "mountain lion" sighting notices, they'll have to go back to calling them cougars.
 
450 said:
Lets not forget about the "Jaguars", "Leopards", and "Snow Leopards".

(iMiss 10.6.8)
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I think that they have done "Leopard", and "Jaguar" may have been done by a car manufacturer.

Also, if they are going to do some kind of headgear it might be called “iVisor”.
 
This is why the whole trademark business is a joke. Apple is so out of control I'd like to throw all it's board members in a cage full of mountain lions and see how the cats like having their name stolen. Maybe throw a few leopards in there for good measure.
 
ultatryon@ecc said:
I am not sure that I follow what the "rub" is here.
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Maybe that there are OTHER products that have the name "Mountain Lion", like, you know, the store brand Citrus Orange flavored (but Green) "Extreme" caffeinated soda beverage look alike from a well known East Coast Grocery store? A product that has been out for at least ten years? That I have a 2 liter bottle of in my kitchen even now, and have a discarded one in my recycle bin today?

So, once again, Apple is trying to steal someone else's product trademark. Bunch of thieves is all they have EVER been.
 
Aquila76 said:
Dear Apple: Please stop litigating at the cost of innovating. If you spent half the resources on R&D that you do on Strike Team Apple you could've had an original product/idea by now.
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Dear Aquila76,

Thank you for your concern. You'll be happy to know we do these things to protect ourselves. This is not litigation. This is taking a pro-active approach to prevent lawsuits.

As for our R&D, be assured we spend plenty of resources on it. Hell, we pretty much design everything for the other manufacturers too, seeing how often they try (and fail) to copy us.

Again, thanks for your concern. We can take it from here...
 
michael.pa2 said:
This is why the whole trademark business is a joke. Apple is so out of control I'd like to throw all it's board members in a cage full of mountain lions and see how the cats like having their name stolen. Maybe throw a few leopards in there for good measure.
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Does this mean you'd also like to throw all the Microsoft Board Members out a "Window" ?
 
MajorDomo said:
Trademark lawsuits are part of the nature of Apple it seems either by design or happenstance. A good example would be the latest application for a trademark on the names OS X Mountain Lion and Mountain Lion. Both names are part of the next release of the company’s newest operating system. The rub is Apple is just getting around to filing them as trademarks.
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Does that mean Apple are responsible for mountain lions, or mountain lions will have to change their name to aggressive little f@#!ers (not their fault really, just a bunch of greedy land owners building s#!t and forcing them out...nothing much has changed since the 18th century, besides the victims).
 
OniFactor said:
Microsoft doesn't sue Pella for manufacturing windows. smidge difference. ;-)
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Except you went off tangent. Apple doesn't sue zoos for posting a sign saying that the animal's a mountain lion either.

Microsoft DID sue Michael Robertson for creating a Linux distribution called Lindows a decade back if you remember.
 
The trademark would only apply to software - or probably more likely, operating systems.

Microsoft wouldn't be able to call Windows 8, Windows 8 Moutain Lion.

Still not a fan, but it's not like they're going to be going after moutain lion exibits in zoos.
 
Azhar said:
Except you went off tangent. Apple doesn't sue zoos for posting a sign saying that the animal's a mountain lion either.

Microsoft DID sue Michael Robertson for creating a Linux distribution called Lindows a decade back if you remember.
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And Apple DID send a C&D to a school because they used an apple as their logo that only was similar in the sense that the leaf pointed in a similar direction.

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Also didn't they also go after a grocery store chain too?

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sfsuphysics said:
And Apple DID send a C&D to a school because they used an apple as their logo that only was similar in the sense that the leaf pointed in a similar direction.

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Also didn't they also go after a grocery store chain too?

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victoria school of tech's logo is a lot more similar than just the "leaf pointed in a similar direction" although the woolworth's one seems like a strange suit.

bear in mind, however, that if a company doesn't attempt to protect it's trademark in court then it can later be ruled in other cases that they don't have a claim so that might explain the woolworth case. did you follow the stories closely enough to tell us what happened? both of these were years ago, right?
 
Trimlock said:
So they can go around suing each mountain lion?
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Well what they do is they sue everyone that uses the name Mountain Lion for anything.

For example, Ford claimed that it owned the name Jaguar, so therefor they took legal action against www.jaguar.com which was ultimately taken down, even though the website was legitimately about the animal jaguars and had no advertisements or anything for automobiles.

Its quite assinine, but unfortunately, big business is known for it and the government even lets these guys put trademarks on things as simple as a color if I remember right... brown for example is UPS.
 
mope54 said:
victoria school of tech's logo is a lot more similar than just the "leaf pointed in a similar direction" although the woolworth's one seems like a strange suit.

bear in mind, however, that if a company doesn't attempt to protect it's trademark in court then it can later be ruled in other cases that they don't have a claim so that might explain the woolworth case. did you follow the stories closely enough to tell us what happened? both of these were years ago, right?
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Please, it is complete and utter nonsense to go after a non-competitor and a completely different industry.

No one would be legitimately confused that the snickers bar they just bought at Woolworths was part of Apple, nor would it in any way infringe on Apple's computer/gadgets sales.
 
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