A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox [LWN.net]

A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox

Posted Sep 22, 2006 14:34 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox

Yes, The Tetris Company does have aggressive lawyers. Right now their business model seems to be licensing Tetris-brand Tetris for phones, so they just need to keep enough cease and desist letters in the air to scare the cell phone carriers away from offering off-brand Tetris clones.

Comments on the Quinn case from Rick Moen, plus links to trademark background articles.

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Rick Moen on trademarks

Posted Oct 1, 2006 17:54 UTC (Sun) by zabriska (guest, #29486) [Link]

Kudos to dmarti for the URL, but I would go back two messages on the list and start there. That post and the two after it are all good stuff.

http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2006-July/011589.html