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<title><![CDATA[German court rules Google Street View is legal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A screenshot of Google Street View with a blurred-out house(Credit:Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Perhaps no Google product has spawned a better blend of quirkiness and scandal than Google Street View--cameras pranked with staged sword battles, naked men emerging from car trunks, unsavory snapshots of dead bodies, and the ire of multiple governments, primarily in Europe, who believe that it's an invasion of privacy.But in one of those countries, Germany, Google Street View has had a victory of sorts. A Berlin court has ruled, according to Deutsche Welle, that it's legal for Google to take the street-level pictures, striking down a lawsuit brought on by a German woman who sued Google over Street View and cited privacy and property rights.The case is complicated, because the woman who sued did so out of the possibility that her privacy might be invaded--e.g. if Google Street View happened to take photos of the front of her house, and that the camera on top of the Google Street View vehicle would see over the hedge in front of it. So the decision's scope may be limited, and subsequently may not be evoked as frequently in property rights cases.Google Street View launched in Germany last summer with the option for anyone to have his or her home blurred out by petitioning to Google, something which was decided after extensive negotiations with the German officials who work to enforce the country's tight privacy laws. Among those buildings blurred was, ironically, the Google office in Munich--because another tenant in the building requested that its offices not appear.The German lawsuit is certainly not the most bizarre one that Google Street View has produced: Last year, a Japanese woman sued Google and claimed that Street View had exposed her underwear drying on a clothesline, something which she then said caused her to lose her job.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple slams Microsoft's 'App Store' challenge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple is defending its effort to trademark the phrase &quot;App Store&quot; against a Microsoft challenge, arguing the term is no more generic than the software giant's trademarked &quot;Windows.&quot;Apple applied for the trademark in 2008, prompting a challenge by Microsoft, which contended the phrase is too generic to register and would restrict competitors' ability to describe their own services. In a filing (PDF) yesterday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple asked that the challenge be dismissed and pointed out that one of Microsoft's most prominent trademarks has also been challenged as generic.&quot;Having itself faced a decades-long genericness challenge to its claimed Windows mark, Microsoft should be well aware that the focus in evaluating genericness is on the mark as a whole and requires a fact-intensive assessment of the primary significance of the term to a substantial majority of the relevant public,&quot; says Apple in the filing (Apple's emphasis). &quot;Yet, Microsoft, missing the forest for the trees, does not base its motion on a comprehensive evaluation of how the relevant public understands the term App Store as a whole.&quot;Apple's trademark application for &quot;app store&quot; was filed a week after the company launched itsiPhone App Store, and described a retail store offering &quot;services featuring computer software provided via the Internet and other computer and electronic communication networks,&quot; as well as other services.Microsoft filed a motion in January opposing the application with the agency's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, saying &quot;app store&quot; is &quot;generic for retail store services featuring apps and unregistrable for ancillary services such as searching for and downloading apps from such stores.&quot; Microsoft's filing cited efforts to trademark &quot;The Computer Store&quot; and &quot;Log Cabin Homes,&quot; applications the board rejected for their generic natures.Microsoft's motion pointed out that the phrase has become common enough that Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the phrase during an interview last October to criticize the proliferation of similar efforts from competing companies.However, Apple argued in its filing that the term isn't generic and pointed out that other companies with competing online enterprises offering apps for mobile devices have found alternatives to the App Store moniker:The phenomenal popularity of Apple's online software marketplace has prompted a number of competitors to offer their own marketplaces. In fact, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Sprint, Verizon, and other major companies now offer an online software marketplace for mobile operating systems that compete with Apple's mobile operating system (in fact, Apple's competitors hold a larger market share than Apple in respect of mobile operating systems). As Microsoft itself acknowledges, these competitors have found ways of branding and describing their own online software marketplace without using the term App Store. For example, Microsoft itself uses the term Marketplace to refer to its service and uses the descriptor &quot;virtual store for apps.&quot; In limited instances third parties have made improper use of the term App Store. In response, Apple has contacted those parties and requested that they cease and desist from further use of the mark. In most every instance, the entities contacted by Apple agreed to cease use of Apple's App Store mark. Those few which refused to cease use of Apple's App Store mark made reference to Microsoft's challenge of Apple's rights in its App Store mark, which has received widespread attention in the press, and have refused to cease using App Store pending a ruling in this proceeding.Microsoft said today it sticks by its argument and will continue its challenge of Apple's trademark application.&quot;We remain confident in our case and believe that the term 'App Store' should continue to be available for use by all without fear of reprisal by Apple,&quot; a Microsoft representative told CNET. &quot;We will continue to move forward with the trademark opposition proceeding in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.&quot; Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.        Steven Musil    Full Profile E-mail Steven Musil   E-mail Steven Musil If you have a question or comment for Steven Musil, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Steven.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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