Dear Google, Android and Droid exist much longer than your crappy OS: >The Oxfor...

avereveard · on Oct 10, 2020

this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

nix23 · on Oct 10, 2020

>this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment

>The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas

So first...google is NOT the Copyright owner of "Droid", second the Android OS was named after an already existing Word in the same domain.

EDIT:

He wrote that in his own Post and from my point he is right:

> "Droid" is a dictionary word and first coined in 1952 by a American science fiction author.

    Quote:
    Droid: Clipping of android. Coined by American science fiction author Mari Wolf in Robots of the World! Arise! (1952), and popularised by the film Star Wars (1977).

    Droid is a trademark of "Lucas Films" now Disney since circa 1990.
    Possible that Google has licensed "Droid" from Lucas now Disney for using in android

    "Android" itself is a dictionary word.

rozab · on Oct 10, 2020

Trademark law and copyright law are completely different. Stop talking about copyright.

nix23 · on Oct 10, 2020

Then Android has nothing todo with droid because it's a different word and has nothing todo with Android right?

Or do you want to sue everyone that has Andr (Man) in his name?

avereveard · on Oct 10, 2020

ugh

1) trademark don't cover just exact matches

2) trademarks are in their own classes, you can't litigate across classes

3) common words are perfectly fine as trademarks, as long as commonly associated with a product

nix23 · on Oct 10, 2020

>common words are perfectly fine as trademarks, as long as commonly associated with a product

Yes exactly and Droid is NOT associated with a Smartphone-OS but Android is.

avereveard · on Oct 10, 2020

it's as if you only read one point out of three and I'm out of charitable interpretations thus unable to further the discussion.