Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names [Slashdot]

[DP ServBot]

An anonymous reader writes with this bit of trademark absurdity from geek.com: "Ravensburger is a German gaming company that specializes in jigsaw puzzles, but has also expanded into other areas such as children's books and games. The company owns the trademark to a board game called 'Memory' and has demanded Apple stop offering apps that have the word 'memory' in their title or as a keyword associated with an app. It may seem ludicrous such a common word can be trademarked, but apparently this is a valid claim as Apple is now serving notices to app developers. The choice an infringing app developer has is to either rename their app or remove it from the App Store."

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[kedawa]

This isn't any worse than the asshole that trademarked 'edge', which is to say it's fucking retarded.

[Edmond Dantes]

Seriously, copyright law allows common words to be trademarked?

Stuff like this makes me feel like copyright law just needs to be abolished.

[kedawa]

Seriously, copyright law allows common words to be trademarked?

Stuff like this makes me feel like copyright law just needs to be abolished.

This would be more of a trademark issue.
I have no problems with rights holders having exclusive rights to sell whatever creations they own, but this is something entirely different.

[The 1 2 P]

This reminds me when Spike Lee sued Spike tv for using his first name.