Microsoft Sued Over Use of 'Bing' Name

[PLATTERMAN]

Long before either was around, i new there to be one bing and its still being made and eaten by me. The Twin Bing candy bar. Google it and see for yourself. Better yet use Bing to search for it and watch theem squirm.

 

[Milleman]

If the case would be the opposite, M$ would NEVER let anyone else to ever come near something that could look like something that could be mistaken as theirs.

 

[ossie]

Poor micro$uxx, and it's wintarded fankiddies... just tasting a bit of it's own medicine.
m$ is famous for suing anything that just remotely resembles any of it's "trademarks".
Well, at least we'll have another bunch of happy lawyers...

 

[Guest]

Shades of Groucho's letter to Warner Brothers regarding the Marx Brothers movie 'A Night in Casablanca'

Abstract: While preparing to film a movie entitled A Night in Casablanca, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own Casablanca, released almost five years earlier in 1942, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Groucho wrote "You claim that you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without permission. What about “Warner Brothers”? Do you own that too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner, but what about the name Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were. We were touring the sticks as the Marx Brothers when Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor’s eye, and even before there had been other brothers — the Smith Brothers; the Brothers Karamazov; Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit; and “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”"

see http://www.chillingeffects.org/resource.cgi?ResourceID=31

 

[r0x0r]

[citation][nom]ossie[/nom]Poor micro$uxx, and it's wintarded fankiddies... just tasting a bit of it's own medicine.m$ is famous for suing anything that just remotely resembles any of it's "trademarks".Well, at least we'll have another bunch of happy lawyers...[/citation]

And of course Apple didn't sue Woolworths for a logo that looks nothing like the Apple logo a few months back...

 

[p05esto]

micro$uxx commenters are very entertaining to me...you can tell they are pimply faced dorks sitting in their bedroom at parent's house. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's the whole micro$uxx attitude is hillarious along with their opinions on M$.

 

[jdw_swb]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]TBH, it does not matter what companies or products are in question, if I beat you to the patent or the trademarke office by 10 minutes, let alone 24 days, you don't get the right to have whatever it is you are trying to patent or trademark.And if you argue "fair" to me i'll just quote Alexander Grahame Bell, who did *NOT* invent the telephone...[/citation]

yes he did

 

[JOSHSKORN]

This is stupid! You have a name, you patent it IMMEDIATELY. I highly doubt Microsoft had any knowledge of anyone using the name to begin with. I even went to Google just now and typed in "bing -Microsoft -Crosby" (In case you didn't know that means omit pages with the words 'Microsoft' and 'Crosby') and this company still didn't come up on the first couple pages. Are the Germans going to sue Microsoft, too? There's a Bing there as well. This is almost as high up there with the woman that spilled the coffee on herself but didn't know it was so hot.

 

[akula2]

[citation][nom]gorehound[/nom]MS Beat them and they are sore losers or just another greedy little company smellin the big money they won't get.[/citation]
Judge Leonard Davis, of U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas, said Microsoft "unlawfully infringed" on a patent that describes how programs go about "manipulating a document's content and architecture separately."

Result? Microsoft Word Sales Banned In 60 Days

You need to see a lot of reality in this world

 

[pollom]

in Mexico bing is a ice cram brand

http://www.heladosbing.com.mx/
http://www.franquiciasenmexico.com.mx/sol_anuncios/138.jpg

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]I have a friend named Bing and he was annoyed that bing.com was apparently available. He said he'd have had it for his own personal email server if he had known that it was there. He's had that name for more than 9 years, maybe he should do it too?[/citation]

Even though I'm sure this is sarcastic, he could have checked at any time if bing.com was available, going back further than 9 years ago and if no one else was using bing.com, he could have registered it himself.

I know a few people who registered two and three letter domain names back in the mid-late 90's, like tm.com, tm.net, mdn.net and so on, then made quite a bit of money off of them down the road when it was near impossible to find 2-3 letter domains available. I just wish I'd have jumped on it. This domain http://www.tm.net is owned by an old friend of mine who runs a local ISP. He was offered $15,000 just to sell it to an interested buyer in 2001. He's made a good bit off of selling e-mail accounts with such a short domain name, though I'm pretty sure he doesn't do it anymore.