Apple, ever vibrant in its ongoing legal battle to protect the “App Store” trademark, claims that it worries that users will confuse the iOS app store with Amazon’s “inferior” product, which they described as a potential security risk for mobile devices.
Apple issues this new filing in its ongoing complaint against Amazon. The filing, uncovered by Computerworld, criticizes that the Amazon Appstore for Android bypasses security safeguards on Android, which increases the potential of dangerous software on consumers’ Android-based devices.
This is just the latest of many claims that Apple has made in defending its trademark, including the claim that the term “app store” was not in common usage before iOS devices became popular.
What are your thoughts? Is “App Store” just too generic of a title for Apple to trademark, or do they have a good point with their notion that they essentially built up and popularized the term? Sound off in the comments!
