Apple Tells Another App Store to Stop Calling Themselves an 'App Store'

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Posted March 22, 2011 at 10:19pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has sent a cease-and-desist letter to MiKandi, an adult novelties store that describes itself as "the world's first app store for adults", according to MacNN.

The MiKandi app store is itself an app that can be installed on Android smartphones. Customers can pay a third-party that converts their money into "points" that then qualify for downloading adult apps from within the app.

Apple believes it has ownership of the 'app store' term and looks to be legally attacking anyone who uses the words. On March 18th Apple filed a lawsuit against Amazon for use of the term.

MiKandi plans to ignore the request for now, pending the result of Microsoft's challenge to Apple's trademark registration.

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Gg - March 23, 2011 at 9:52am

Im with apple on this on. If they copyright "Windows" why cant apple copyright their most amazing product name?

Ben - March 23, 2011 at 5:28am

Apple does bad law suit against the market. Hope court does not let Apple win.

Jeremy - March 23, 2011 at 2:19am

If apple wins this lawsuit for a word I'm gonna sue every company that uses the word save in all their adds!! I'm gonna be able to retire in a week on this!!!

detective sims - March 23, 2011 at 1:35am

Actually, Apple can't do that because they were not given the copyright.

Frank - March 23, 2011 at 11:27am

Actually they can. In the U.S. if you use a name in commerce whoever uses it first is automatically granted ownership of the mark. It doesn't matter if you registered it. The issue here is that 'app store' is likely to descriptive to qualify as a registrable mark.

bob53366 - March 23, 2011 at 12:24am

The word "App" is not a word, Apple will win in court.

trialuser - March 23, 2011 at 6:53am

Come-on, when MS when abt it, no one raised an eyebrow, and now....