Company sues other company over trademark…while it has Apple’s trademark in its domain name.
From The Las Vegas Sun comes news of a lawsuit filed by the owner of Macpokeronline.com against the owner of macpoker.com and macpoker.net.
Best Odds Corp., owner of the macpokeronline.com, filed the suit claiming MacPoker.com and MacPoker.net infringe on its trademark for Mac Poker.
A trademark for Mac Poker? Yep. Best Odds Corp has been working to get this approved for a while. In the most recent struggle, Best Odds didn’t want to have a disclaimer of the descriptive word “Poker” in its trademark. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disagreed.
But here’s the bigger issue. Best Odds Corp might be upset about a competitor using a better domain name than it owns. Yet it could be drawing some unwanted attention from Apple, which owns the mark for Mac. I think Apple might not be pleased to have its brand associated with gambling. So it’s somewhat ironic to sue someone over trademark infringement when you may be infringing yourself.
I had a pretty good laugh at this one. Amazing.
Owner’s name is Mac?
It’s like when an illegal poker game gets robbed and they call the cops
I think you are taking a leap when you say that it is “ironic to sue someone over trademark infringement when you may be infringing yourself”
I know that the word “may” is a qualifier here but using the term mac in relation to gambling or any other good or service not related to computers is not an infringement of macs computer related tm.
Apple does not enjoy the right to exclusivity over the use of ther term mac outside of the relam of computers.
The way your story reads here, MAC cosmetics “may” also be infringing on apples tm. I dont think so!
@ nono – you’re correct, except that both site publishers are using it to refer to the computer.
Andrew is correct, the sites in question have benefited of the term “Mac” in relation to the computer TM. Wonder what the Best Odds are that Best Odds goes out of business after Apple lays the smack down. 🙂