If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows'

[wraggster]

In response to Microsoft's attempt to dismiss Apple's 'App Store' trademark application (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/12/microsoft-files-objection-to-apples-app-store-trademark-appli/), Apple references Microsoft's claim to the Windows trademark (http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/03/apple-fights-for-app-store-trademark.html). 'Having itself faced a decades-long genericness challenge to its claimed WINDOWS mark, Microsoft should be well aware that the focus in evaluating genericness is on the mark as a whole and requires a fact-intensive assessment of the primary significance of the term to a substantial majority of the relevant public.'"http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/02/050202/If-App-Stores-Trademark-Is-Generic-So-Is-Windows

[Fonixx]

I don't recall the term Windows being used in the days of Dos until MS created an OS, but i've been buying Apps from stores for Smartphones a lot of years before Apple got into the game, so they need to stop bitching and moaning everytime they don't get complete control over everyones life.