An Australian company uses the name DOPi (iPod spelled backwards) on notebook bags and cases for Apple’s popular products. Apple sued the down under company and lost:
In the tribunal hearing, IP Australia, the government body that oversees trademark applications, said Apple overlooked the fact that there were already a large number of products that have the “i” prefix, for example iSkin and iSoft to name just two, all of which are operating in the same class of electronic goods as Apple.
Good for PODi. If anything, maybe Apple will stop the iEverything nonsense and come up with something more original for the rest of the 21st century.
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