more bad behaviour from Amazon
Apr. 22nd, 2009 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Register has the story. Here's part of it:
Tree huggers will confuse shoppers, says Amazon
By Austin Modine
Amazon.com is an immensely popular online storefront that sells everything from books and groceries to virtual timeshares of its extensive data center infrastructure.
Amazee is a Switzerland-based, social "collaboration website" made for social activists and protestors to organize, promote, and fund their public uprisings and Earth-saving efforts.
While the two websites offer distinct services, Amazon.com is none too pleased about the "amaz" the two sites share, and is trying to block Amazee's US trademark application. [. . .]
According to the US Patent and Trademark Office, Amazon.com has been objecting to Amazee's name since the beginning of this year. Amazon attorneys say the average person won't appreciate the differences between Amazon and Amazee, thus leading to consumer confusion between the two brands. Apparently, a customer shopping for tasteful shoes online may accidentally wind up rescuing atrophied kangaroos from a shampoo testing compound or something. [. . .]
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Date: 2009-04-22 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 03:50 pm (UTC)"Amazing!"
Careful! Amazon might sue!
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Date: 2009-04-22 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 06:26 pm (UTC)Of course, where I live, "Metheglyn" would have other connotations . . .
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm keeping my account there because I don't want to lose the reviews I've written, and will most likely keep up with writing a couple of reviews a year, but Amazon has pretty much lost me.
The abundant bs in this world is almost nearly mind boggling . . . if I still had a mind to boggle.
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Date: 2009-04-22 05:06 pm (UTC)"I'm keeping my account there because I don't want to lose the reviews I've written, and will most likely keep up with writing a couple of reviews a year"
Have you thought of shifting everything across to GoodReads?
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Date: 2009-04-22 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 09:08 pm (UTC)What, did they think they invented the name Amazon? I bet a lot of South Americans are laughing.
*boycotts Amazon even harder*
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Date: 2009-04-22 10:47 pm (UTC)It is astonishing, isn't it, the arrogance of corporations.
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:11 pm (UTC)Are people so stupid they can't tell the difference between AmazON and AmazEE? idiots!