[citation][nom]bunga28[/nom]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.)[/citation]
Yeah, so is "windows". Check to see if that is patented. Dunno if you guys can remember another lawsuit, some time ago. A fresh start-up company set out to make their own version of Linux and made the mistake of naming it "Lindows".
Guess who got all hot and bothered and sued the heck outta them? Yupp, you guessed it. And they won too, so Lindows had to change their name to "Linspire". (http
/www.linspire.com)
OK, perhaps this isn't the same situation and Vivid is definitely not Microsoft, but still, I think it qualifies as precedent. Which goes to show that given enough leverage, you can patent everything.