On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Hal Kaplan wrote:
There's no harm in asking, but this is egregious. Apple does not have any rights to "POD" at this time and its questionable that they ever will. POD is a common insurance abbreviation for Pay on Death. It's probably on every U.S. Savings Bond but certainly on the ones I have.
Oh, just like Microsoft doesn't have any rights to 'Windows', 'Word', 'Money', or any of those other terms?
There is no possible confusion between the abbreviation POD on your Savings Bond and their device. But any product marketed as having a music or technological link that calls themselves a name that incorporates 'pod' is probably trying to ride the wave of iPod popularity; those are the only ones that can be taken to weaken the trademark.
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