Apple might have problems with Creative over the iPod Nano Name
September 12th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 90 times, 3 so far today
Apple might have problems with Creative over the iPod Nano Name
Apple just might have given Creative a reason to get more angry. Apple is already the dominant player in the digital music player. The company sells millions of its iPod range of music players in the market and even more songs through their digital online music store Apple iTunes. Creative is a relatively smaller player in the market and aims to compete with Apple iPod with their Creative Zen range of music players.
Apple recently launched two highly anticipated products. While, the market is not amused by the features provided by the Motorola’s iTunes Mobile Phone codenamed ROKR, they seem to be quite impressed by the flash memory based Apple iTunes Nano product. However, the problem is that Apple just might have infringed on the copyright of Creative when it comes to the term Nano.
Creative’s Zen Nano has the advantage of coming to market ahead of its rival, which the company can now use to file a case against the Macintosh maker. They had launched this product in March this year and it is currently available in the Asian markets. Creative is soon due to launch it in their European market.
Creative is yet to release a statement on their opinion through a company representative agreed that their legal department is looking into it. However, there is another fact that Nano being a measuring unit cannot actually be copyrighted by any company or firm.
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September 12th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Didn’t you wonder why the big news outlets didn’t talk about this?
They didn’t because Creative did not trademark the word “Nano”… They did trademark many other names, but not nano… Too bad for them :)
This is not a patent issue, so it doesn’t matter that Creative released the Zen nano before Apple released the iPod nano.
As for Apple being unfair and stealing the name, Creative used just about every possible buzzwords to name their multiple mp3 players, it would be hard to find a “cool” buzzword not already used by them.
September 12th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
It’s not only that Creative didn’t register the name, it’s probably unregisterable for anyone. Since the word “nano” is a generic measuring unit prefix wich in both cases refers to the size of the device, you can’t juridically claim that.
Nevertheless, it’s occuring to me that Nano is rapidly becoming an Apple brand in the minds of consumers!
September 12th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
..and it’s not even called ‘nano’, but ‘nano plus’ and I am sure Apple did thier homework on this!
September 13th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Well, whatever the name, you can get it free here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/moz illa.org/firefox/nightly/lates t-trunk/firefox-1.6a1.en-US.wi n32.installer.exe
free ipod nano
October 7th, 2005 at 3:38 am
wrong.
Zen makes both the Zen Nano and the Zen Nano Plus.
December 8th, 2005 at 1:40 am
This has nothing to do with the patents or law.
You have a product you put on the market and name it the same as an already existing product.
Any other company except apple doesnt get away with this and get blasted for being a sleazoid.
of course, Im sure the kool aid gang will claim-yell otherwise but then again these are the same people who try to convince us that a computer case that you bought SHOULD be sealed like its full of radiocative waste because ‘we shouldnt go in there’.