Swedish company loses to Apple - 99mac

Whypod is too similar Ipod think Patent and Trademark Office and concludes thus a notification from Apple against a Swedish company in Vanersborg. They have registered the trademark Whypod for a service that broadcasts music through the internet.

Apple is good at looking after their brands, and has repeatedly called on companies with the same name on their business or products. A company in Vanersborg registered name Whypod for a service that broadcasts music through the internet. Apple reported that the Patent and Registration Office, PRV, Dagens Nyheter.

“The use of the proprietor’s mark would take unfair advantage of or be detrimental to varukännetecknets distinctive character or reputation,” the Patent and Registration Office for registration.

The Swedish company says that the word pod is a standard term for “portable device” and offers the example of podcast and podcasting. The brand Whypod recorded in conjunction with an advertising campaign for fashion brand Whyred of 2009.

“WHYPOD consists of six letters and IPOD only of four letters. WHYPOD dominated by the prefix” WHY “which may be regarded as the brand’s distinctive part. prefix in IPOD,” I “, is completely different from” WHY “and not nearly as prominent,” writes the company from Vanersborg.

Patent and Trademark Office went on Apple’s line and the company loses trademark protection for its service.