Apple inc owns the trademark ‘App Store’ and has filed a lawsuit in Northern California Federal Court. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc v. Amazon.com Inc, 11-1327.
According to Reuters, Apple’s spokeswoman, Kristin Huguet, said on Monday “We’ve asked Amazon not to copy the APP STORE name because it will confuse and mislead customers,”
It remains to be seen what, if any, action Amazon will take in response to the lawsuit.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California. It is considered one of the Big Tech technology companies, alongside Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
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Well known products and services from the brand include the iPad tablet computer, AirPods wireless earbuds, iOS, iTunes, the Safari web browser, Apple Music, iCloud and Apple Pay.
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976. Apple went public in 1980. In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion and just two years later in August 2020 became the first $2 trillion U.S. company.
The company employs 137,000 full-time employees and maintains 510 retail stores in 25 countries as of 2020.
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California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars.
