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Apple and Adobe Bully Small Businesses Over Name Rights

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DaniWeb TechTreasures; By Ron Miller
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Apple and Adobe have both gotten some press lately for going to the trademark police after a couple of small business people had the audacity to publicize their products by including corporate trademarks in their business name.

First there was the case of Apple going after The iPod Mechanic as reported by my colleague Davey Winder (aka Happy Geek) in his Inside Edge blog. Now comes news from ReadWriteWeb that Adobe is going after a guy for setting up a web site called FreshAIRapps, which apparently violates the sanctity of the Adobe AIR (all caps) trademark. Enough is enough.

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"Sure, these examples are both technically violations of the rules"

That says it all.

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