The Tiger Pounces...

[Relient J]

It's now Friday, April 29, 2005 - the day that Apple Computer, Inc. releases the latest update to OS X: Mac OS X 10.4, otherwise known as Tiger.

Unfortunately my copy has been delayed in getting here because I failed to put the right city in the billing and shipping address field when I placed the order online. :( It was supposed to arrive yesterday or today, but instead will arrive at some unknown time in the future.

Let this thread be the place for all of your thoughts, reviews, complaints, praises, etc. on Apple's latest attack in the OS wars.

[Eidorian]

And gets sued... (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conews&tkr=AAPL:US)

It's a lowblow from Tigerdirect. I'll be buying from Newegg.com from now on. I've talked some of professors in the Foreign Language department into asking the technology department to get Tiger. Lots of new language features and I love the PDF integration.

[WolfmanNCSU]

I will definitely confuse OS X Tiger with tigerdirect....

Up Next: Microsoft getting sued by the University of Texas for using the codename "Longhorn"

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[WolfmanNCSU]

Whew, this was a close one...

Judge Denies Injunction in Apple Trademark Dispute
Contributed by Devin
Monday, 16 May 2005
A judge ruled in Apple's favor during the first part of the trademark dispute over the name "Tiger" between Apple Computer and US reseller Tiger Direct.

Tiger Direct was trying to get an injunction blocking Apple's use of the name "Tiger." This lawsuit was filed only days before Apple's big launch of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Tiger Direct is claiming that the Apple Computer operating system's name was confusing customers and diluting their search engine rankings.

The injunction would have effectively removed Apple's Mac OS X operating system from store shelves.

US District Court of Florida Judge Joan Lenard decided on the case last week stating that, "there is greater risk of damage to Apple from granting the injunction than any potential harm to Tiger Direct from Apple's use of the Tiger name".

In her ruling she said, "The trademarks are distinctly different, any given customer who cross-shops Tiger Direct and Apple, whether over the Internet or in person at their retail local stores, will be able to distinguish their respective retail outlets due to the distinctive differences in their marketplaces' appearance and messages."

Judge Lenard released her ruling almost a week after issuing it to the plaintiff and defendants. The injunction hearing was held on May 5, only a week after Apple's product release.

Apple indicated that they in no way tried to trade off the name Tiger Direct. Tiger is the latest in a list of large cats that the company has been using to brand its operating systems.

Link (http://www.geekinformed.com/content/view/188/1/)