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Apple piles on Psystar, wins trademark suit
In yet another new facet to this already-draining legal battle surrounding Psystar's sales of non-Apple hardware that runs Mac OS X, Apple has amended its original suit after it discovered "additional information," according to Computerworld.
Apple now claims Psystar circumvented Apple's copyright protection code, in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Apple said in its original filing that Psystar was in violation of the Mac OS X End-User License Agreement, but tacked on this additional charge last week.
The amendment also names 10 "John Does" -- persons who were not part of the Psystar company, but broke the copyright protection scheme. Apple doesn't know who they are yet, but plans to name names when its lawyers find out who they are.
In other Apple legal news, Apple won a trademark infringement case in China against New Apple Concept Digital Technology Co., Ltd., based in Shenzen. Judges decided that the Chinese company had a logo too similar to Apple's. New Ap -- aw, eff it -- NACDTCL was ordered to pay 400,000 yuan (≈ US$58,000) to Apple, Inc.
[Via Cult of Mac.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ack154 said 1:09PM on 12-02-2008
A trademark suit about a logo and no pic of said offending logo?
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Robert Palmer said 1:11PM on 12-02-2008
I think this is it, but am not 100 percent certain:
http://bit.ly/P4IP
ROFISH@kc.rr.com said 1:12PM on 12-02-2008
I'm all for the Apple to sell their OS in any way they like. If they don't want beige boxes, then all the power to them. It's not like they're obligated like some people feel that they should do.
However anything involving the DMCA and copyright protection is just wrong. It's one thing to make money, but it's another for a bored hobby hacker to do something just because they can.
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rofish said 1:15PM on 12-02-2008
Whoops, can somebody delete my email address from the name?
Jeremy said 1:17PM on 12-02-2008
It looks like Apple is going after the "John Doe's" that cracked open the stuff on the hobby lists, that Psystar then turned around and stole for their business.
This is a shame to go after hobbyists and geeks, but Psystar started it by making the legal argument they did. Given that the open source hobbyists didn't go after Psystar for stealing their work, this was perhaps inevitable.
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KeynoteKen said 6:29PM on 12-02-2008
I wasn't expecting this, but it makes sense. There are lots of things that aren't worth going after until someone tries to make a profit.
Ben said 2:28PM on 12-02-2008
It's too bad that Psystar is ruining it for everyone.
I think the community sort of expected it.
brickinhymr said 1:19PM on 12-02-2008
I love that the ad that I got from google in the reader was for a "Used Apple" from Psystar
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conigs said 3:00PM on 12-02-2008
Aside: is tuaw still using exit ads? I just clicked on Robert's possible infringing logo and was hit with an Ozzie/Samsung ad.
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JScott said 8:34PM on 12-02-2008
Hooray for misleading titles!
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colouroflight said 9:52PM on 12-02-2008
Psystar is lame, but does anyone really give a crap about EULAs?
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