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Digital Legal
Apple sues Amazon over app store name
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 23 March 2011
Apple is suing Amazon over the rights to the name App Store.
Amazon has started using the name App Store, or, rather, Appstore, mainly on a website aimed at developers, despite Apple being in the process of trying to trademark that title.
That trademark application is already the subject of litigation because Microsoft is trying to stop its rivals from getting ownership of the mark, on the basis that anyone who operates a store that sells apps should be able to call it an app store.
Apple filed legal papers with the Californian courts last week, and a spokeswoman confirmed to reporters on Monday: “We’ve asked Amazon not to copy the App Store name because it will confuse and mislead customers”. Amazon is yet to respond.
