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Apple Seeks Trademark Relief from Makers of "Pod" Products

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 15, 2006 - 12:35pm.
San Francisco - Seeking to crack down on copycats utilizing its trademarks, Apple has sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of companies it says make unfair use of the word "pod" in their product names, CNET News.com reported. One target of the letters was TightPod, a maker of laptop covers. Another is a vending machine accessory from Mach5products.com called Profit Pod. Both companies have been asked to rename their products. The maker of TightPod devices is considering going to court, but also offered to remove any reference to MP3 players, while asking that Apple pay half the cost of rebranding his product. The text of the cease-and-desist letter sent by Apple's attorneys to Mach5products.com reads in part: "We believe there is confusing similarity between Apple's iPod mark and the Profit Pod mark…it has not gone unnoticed that, like Apple's iPod device, the Profit Pod product is a small, flat, round-cornered rectangular device with a display screen."

http://tinyurl.com/hz6su (CNET)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?page_id=3481 (Apple letter)
http://www.tightpod.com
http://www.mach5products.com/profit/PROFIT.htm
tags: Law | Tech | Music | iPod | Apple | CE | Trademark |



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