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Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: datalas on August 19, 2006, 10:12:15

Since Apple are currently suing anyone who uses the word "pod" irrespective of whether they use it in the context of the iPod[1],  is LandRover's use of the "TerraPod" up for dispute :?

Are the pod people in trouble?   Are the police themselves going to have to be insanely carefull about guarding the differentiating L ?



[1] Thats the Apple iPod (c)(tm)(r)(love) to give it it's full name so Apple (tm)(r)(c)(swoon) don't try and sue me ...

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: ian_s on August 19, 2006, 10:34:25

so are they going to start sueing pea farmers?

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: scorpio on August 19, 2006, 12:46:06

Quote from: "ian_s"

so are they going to start sueing pea farmers?

No but they are going to sue greengrocers for selling Peas in the POD  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: MK1 on August 19, 2006, 15:21:09

That sounds cobblers to me. What about Pod shoes from the 80s?

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: clbarclay on August 19, 2006, 17:47:02

He reaches for the CD player (mp3 bah humbug) and sticks on Eagles - Get over it.


Ahhh thats better.

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on August 19, 2006, 18:01:59

Thats a bit of a contradiction there Clbarclay in that you are not modern enough for an mp3 player yet you pick one of the most modern songs from an old band to describe this metaphorically!

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: clbarclay on August 19, 2006, 20:48:02

Quote from: "Rangie3.0LtrDan"

Thats a bit of a contradiction there Clbarclay in that you are not modern enough for an mp3 player yet you pick one of the most modern songs from an old band to describe this metaphorically!

You may have miss understood the bah humbug, it was due to ipod being the names most associated with mp3.

As for me, I use mp3 as much as CDs, its just a question of time and place.

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: thermidorthelobster on August 21, 2006, 11:07:42

In the version I'd heard, Apple aren't sueing anybody.  They've written some Cease and Desist letters to people using the word Pod in products specifically related to iPods and MP3 players, which is hardly news.  Who are they sueing actually?

Title: Apple vs LandRover
Post by: datalas on August 21, 2006, 17:20:28

the definition of "related to iPod" is I beleive a shade on the open to interpretation side,  I wasn't deliberately trying to have a go at the wonder that is apple (as they can clearly do no wrong, aren't they marvelous etc) but merely wanting to have a bit of a joke about it all ...

"Profit Pod is a device that compiles data from vending machines" which recieved a cease and desist.. now, I didn't actually know that a vending machine was related to an iPod, but what do I know ?