Porn Giant Vivid to Take Legal Action Over HTC Vivid Name

[Marcus Yam]

Sex-tape specialist unhappy with the HTC Vivid smartphone.

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[bunga28]

No chance that it (vivid ent.) will win. zero, zip, dipadood, nope; no chance in hell or on earth. Vivid is an English word describing strong, clear impression or chroma. It's not ubiquitous. I think there a few similar cases that were thrown out by the judges. (I don't remember the specific, but I do know that they were thrown out.)

 

[aznguy0028]

looks like this will be a sticky situation.. xD

 

[mouse24]

Calm down guys, no reason to get antsy right off the bat, simply ask them if they can change the name...

Don't go straight into trying to make this a court case.

I highly doubt HTC wants the phones named after porn anyways. -.-

 

[mman74]

Can I trademark the word Porn, please? Oh can I , can I , please .... please....?

 

[zoemayne]

reminds me of a situation where a strip club was called rolex. rolex the watch maker sued them and many other users of the name rolex. eventually the club changed its name to lex.

 

[ocelotty]

I think that Vivid entertainment should stand up for themselves and show some spunk. Fortunately the HTC Vivid is not 3D enabled or we might really see a messy courtroom drama; Otherwise it could give whole new meaning to coming at you in 3D

 

[AndrewMD]

I would hope the judge throws this out and make an example of unrelated companies like this one...

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]reminds me of a situation where a strip club was called rolex. rolex the watch maker sued them and many other users of the name rolex. eventually the club changed its name to lex.[/citation]Except that "Rolex" is a brand name, not an often-used English adjective. That's like Apple suing grocery stores for marketing fruit under their trademarked name...although I wouldn't put that past Apple's lawyers.

 

[alchemy69]

Bad news for the forthcoming Samsung Bang Bros

 

[tacoslave]

[citation][nom]alchemy69[/nom]Bad news for the forthcoming Samsung Bang Bros[/citation]
Samsung? what about Nintendo's upcoming "Super Bang Bros 3D"

 

[sixdegree]

That lawsuit is a waste of time. Vivid should just make a porn streaming application for android and HTC should bundle them with HTC Vivid. That way, everybody wins.

 

[jsc]

Legal precedence is on HTC's side.

 

[Guest]

Vivid is a f***ing word, this is just sad.

 

[Guest]

HTC Brazzer has a ring to it

 

[mortonww]

They probably don't expect to win, they just expect to get media coverage and more exposure (pardon the pun).

 

[ern88]

What a bunch of retards. It;s a model name. Has nothing to do with Porn. The Porn business must be taking a noise dive!!!

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]dalauder[/nom]Except that "Rolex" is a brand name, not an often-used English adjective. That's like Apple suing grocery stores for marketing fruit under their trademarked name...although I wouldn't put that past Apple's lawyers.[/citation]

Sad things is, Apple has already done that. Except it was with the apple symbol for the supermarket.

 

[ballinjoey2332]

Vivid Entertainment believes that customers may get confused and think that the HTC Vivid is associated with the sexual media maker.

Really? I know there is dumb people in this world but damn

 

[Guest]

The HTC vivid will for ever more be called the "HTC porno"