

Early setback could prove troubling later in the case





A trial is set to begin October 2012.




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By Solandri on 7/7/2011 3:51:36 PM , Rating: 2
Apple is trying to play a semantic game of cups and balls. Instead of calling programs "programs", they prefer to call them "applications" because the first four letters happen to match the first four letters of their company name. They did coin the term "applet", which you'll notice includes all five letters of the company name.

But to work backwards from that and claim that they should own "App Store" because the first three letters refer to both "Apple" and "application" is asinine.

