Apple continues to try to keep the other companies to use the term "app Store" and she just sent GetJar a letter of termination and forbearance for the use of this term, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apple has been very successful with its App Store, as it has recently reached more than 15 billion downloads has been raking the cash (so and giving developers a shipment of money). The company is also determined to trade-mark "app Store" so that other companies can not use it, this is why we have seen companies such as RIM use world BlackBerry for its market of distribution app.
GetJar, the world most large independent app store, does not hear that noise and he fired in a blog:
If Apple has even the term "app Store" the first is debatable. If you look at the case being fought against between Apple and other parts of the 3rd and really make some duties you will see that: they filed to register the App Store in 2008 with the USPTO and were deprived of the mark. Given that Apple has a difficult time with the word not, they filed once more and we have given a "provisional" registration on the condition that they could TM App Store, if nobody objects to the registration. Sometimes, so although Microsoft among others objected. So for Apple will around to threaten or to pursue other based on a claim tenuous "owner" of a generic name which is not 100% is seriously "taken the - piss" as would say English and we would use no doubt more colorful language here in the United States. GetJar uses the term "App Store" in press releases and it is positioned with consumers, trade, analysts and press since the beginning of 2009 and it is only now that Apple has decided to send us a C & D. That said, the GetJar does not use the term of its brand and slogan or tagline.
I side with GetJar and others on this subject, I do not think that "app Store" is a generic term.
Marine Perez tested torture for mobile phones and smartphones for the leaders in the industry such as CNET and InformationWeek. He is fascinated by the wireless industry, because he believes that we are entering a period of great innovation in the mobile space. Long user BlackBerry, Marin has fallen for Android but not familiar with all major platforms.
