Sears selling a series of 'iWork' toolkits and tool sets

For some reason, products with the letter 'I' in front, other than those made by Apple, to me, just make it sound tacky.

I find it interesting that they being up cisco having an "iPhone" first and no one mentioned here that cisco also had an "IOS" first too. And guess what... It's an operating system too. Imagine that.

What bothers me most is the PC tool set includes a hammer, for those irreversible fixes you're tempted to made. Of course if your PC is held together with nails I guess it's OK.

A 101 level class in intellectual property will give you the example of Cadillac automakers vs Cadillac boats. To this day, they are separate companies, separate products, but they both make products that say "Cadillac" on them. Many years ago Cadillac autos took boats to court and the court found that Cadillac boats was not infringing, because the rules state that they are in different industries making different products and therefore no confusion would occur.

It's important to be knowledgeable on your topic when you write about it. If you research it, you are a journalist. If you don't, you either write for a tabloid or are a blogger... oy!

Here is the deal. The article might be wrong. I've purchased multiple of these iWork screwdriver toolkits at Fry's electronics for a long time now. (I got the 52pc screwdriver kit to the right for $10). So, saying that these are new is incorrect, and these actually may predate iWork productivity suite.

The whole issue would have been moot if they had used the name iTools. Apple hasn't used that one for years.

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Who cares. No trademark infringement so not news.

I’d like to see some cross-promotion here.
Come to Sears and get all the tools for your job.
Buy iWork get iWork free.

IGG software had software called "iWork" before Apple. They renamed the product to "iBiz" when Apple bought the mark.