Microsoft forced to rename Windows 8 - Metro...

mattyfez said:
On a serious note though "The threat is believed to have been made by German retailer Metro AG"


We have a newspaper called Metro and city trains are called metros, there's also a car (or was) called metro.

Surely Metro is simply short hand for metropolitan - how can you argue IP over that?
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I thought this too, plus it's one company in Germany which probably most of the world doesn't know of and has no direct similarities to a software interface that I am aware of.

I thought in general trademarks weren't broken if they used for dissimilar products?
 
ecksmen said:
Sash Windows?
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I'm a bit late to the thread, but my first thought was 'locked Windows' followed by 'broken Windows'. Anyway I find it quite short sighted of the aformentioned Metro Ag as they started out in 1996, one year after the Swedish Metro newspaper (apparently the largest global newspaper) which pre-dates our Metro newspaper by four years. It seems that the Swedish newspaper group isn't bothered by a retail company using Metro as it's name and also by a different newspaper group calling a paper the same name as it's own.
 
oh ok you mean the metro ag. Well metro is a term that is also used for train and several train companies use the term. It is a stupid name for a UI in my opinion.

I was just watching some more "windows 8 sucks" videos on youtube. some of them are funny.
 
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Metro AG are probably not too worried about the odd national newspaper or other company using its TM for dissimilar or even slightly similar products. But with a major global entity that is different.

Perhaps we could have bulletproof windows, I wish.
 
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