Apple has embarked on a legal battle over the right to use the word "pod".

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The row has come about because of a projector called Video Pod currently being developed by start-up Sector Labs.

When the dispute first began, Apple said Sector Labs' use of the word might cause confusion among customers.

The legal claim to the name will be played out via documents the two companies will file in a US court over the next month.

Apple has filed an 873-page briefing paper to the court laying out its claim to exclusive use of the name. Sector Labs is due to file its paper arguments in early October. The documents will be sent to the US patents office which will judge their claims.

Ana Christian, Sector Labs' lawyer, told Wired.com that the fight was about more than just the right to use "pod".

"What I'm hoping to do with this case is to really reach a lot broader an audience and make it so entrepreneurs and small businesses can use the English language as they see fit in branding their products," she told the magazine.

The row between the two firms began in 2009 when news about Sector Labs' video projector emerged.

Sector Labs is one among many tech firms that Apple has taken on because they have used the word "pod" in product names.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11404886

[ADSplay101]

out of all of the dumb   the world is goin thru and out of the senseless things to be bickering over. They are going over a legal battle over a word? and out of all the words...pod? >.> Hey while there at it I guess they should let the ones that invented the word spacepod and the Killerwhale babies get a shot and a lawsuit as well.

[SanjiSasuke]

Mr. Farmer you are under arrest for copyright infringement.

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It's like everything is copyrighted now a day's.

[ADSplay101]

It's like everything is copyrighted now a day's.

OMG YOU SAID COPYRIGHTED, THATS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION!!!!!!!! 

[♦ßlôödÑinjå♦]

OMG YOU SAID COPYRIGHTED, THATS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION!!!!!!!! 

I didn't know!! 

[SanjiSasuke]

Sir that smiley is under copyright protection


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[DizzyTheConquer]

So apple is trying to get the word "pod" copyrighted huh?

So let me get this straight, if apple wins this, if I use the word "pod" in anyway, I'll get sued?

In the words of James Rolfe himself, "That's Bull****!"

[Tha Lando ( Le CROM )]

So apple is trying to get the word "pod" copyrighted huh?

So let me get this straight, if apple wins this, if I use the word "pod" in anyway, I'll get sued?

In the words of James Rolfe himself, "That's Bull****!"

HOLY  your sig and stuff got characters from other companies that created them, you are in copyright violation sir.....wait so do i! so does almost everyone ! we are all under VIOLATION! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[DizzyTheConquer]

HOLY  your sig and stuff got characters from other companies that created them, you are in copyright violation sir.....wait so do i! so does almost everyone ! we are all under VIOLATION! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

OH-HO-HO-HO-HO MY GOD!!!!

[Red Venom]

this will be brought down and apple will look like a dumbass. first apple are know to put the lower case I in front of a lot of things that is what apple should focus on. I mean what about podcasts. Anyways this happened between iirc processors some of them using numbers and when another company used it in a similar fashion it was dismissed because you can not copy right numbers. in this case you can not copyright the word pod.

[ATiC3]

What about Saiyan pods... What would we call them now?

[ADSplay101]

What about Saiyan pods... What would we call them now?

Sayian BirthBalls ?