As a company become very successful and popular, such as Apple Computers with its iPod product line, a brand name tends to to become a generic name for the product it represents. This is also when the company become very sensitive with trademark issue and infringement.

In previous weeks, Apple has laid legal claim to the word “Pod”, arguing that other companies that use the word as part of their product names risk infringing the trademark of its popular iPod music player, reports FT.com.

Some of the products involved in this legal campaign include Profit Pod and TightPod. The former is a product that transmits information in an arcade game through infra-red technology to a computer, notebook or PDA. The latter is a product that helps laptop owners to protect their notebook computer form the other gear in the bag.

Even if the product looks nothing like an iPod, or have nothing to do that related to iPod in features such as digital entertainment, music or video, still they have the potential to get a threatening letter from Apple.

I am not a lawyer, but it doesn’t make any sense if the company who released their product back in the years when we haven’t heard of iPod also get sued, does it?

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