Friday, May 25, 2007

The Micro-Pundit:  Silouhettes are not Trademarkable

I stumbled across a very amusing story today.  Apparently Apple Computer is taking exception to a new poster from UK adult store Ann Summers for their iGasm (story here).  And apparently, this isn’t the first time Apple got hot under the collar over someone swiping their “iBlank” and sillouhette advertising ideas.  They set the lawyers loose on the iPod iBuzz vibrator too (Story here).

As far as I know, sillouhettes are not trademarkable.  But even if they are, all Apple’s doing is making themselves look petty.  And I can speak from experience, there are a lot of people laughing at you over this one.