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March 30, 2006
Lawyer For Jobs' Apple Says iTunes Not In Violation (Forbes)
"Data transmission is within our field of use. That's what [the 1991 trademark agreement] says and it is inescapable," said Anthony Grabiner, according to The Associated Press. No "reasonable person," he said, would assume that Apple Computer had created or owned the 3.5 million songs on its hugely successful iTunes music store.
Apple Corps' lawyer Geoffrey Vos pointed back to the original agreement, saying that Apple Computer's music distribution business "was flatly contradictory" to its terms. The areas that each company could operate in, with their respective apple trademarks, had been clarified, and Cupertino, CA-based company was now in violation.
Posted by kuechebj at March 30, 2006 01:11 PM