{"id":3172,"date":"2011-11-18T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T17:26:45","slug":"kindle-fire-dragged-into-apples-app-store-suit-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/kindle-fire-dragged-into-apples-app-store-suit-against-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Fire dragged into Apple&#8217;s &#8220;app store&#8221; suit against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6ulqm9e\">Kindle Fire dragged  into Apple&#8217;s &#8220;app store&#8221; suit against Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Jacqui Cheng<\/p>\n<p>Apple has set its sights on the Kindle Fire as part of the company&#8217;s trademark  lawsuit against Amazon. In an amended complaint filed this week, Apple argued  that Amazon began altering its own &#8220;Appstore&#8221; marketing when it introduced the  Kindle Fire in September, and Apple sees the move as an attempt to conflate  consumer expectations between Apple&#8217;s App Store and Amazon&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>When Amazon first introduced its Appstore for Android earlier this year, Apple  was not pleased. The company immediately filed a lawsuit against Amazon, arguing  that Amazon was illegally using Apple&#8217;s trademarked term &#8220;App Store&#8221; to market  its own products. But things have not gone as smoothly as Apple would have  liked; US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple its request for a  preliminary injunction because she felt Apple hadn&#8217;t yet shown sufficient  evidence that its own trademark had been diluted by Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6ulqm9e\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle Fire dragged into Apple&#8217;s &#8220;app store&#8221; suit against Amazon By Jacqui Cheng Apple has set its sights on the Kindle Fire as part of the company&#8217;s trademark lawsuit against Amazon. In an amended complaint filed this week, Apple argued that Amazon began altering its own &#8220;Appstore&#8221; marketing when it introduced the Kindle Fire in September, and Apple\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/kindle-fire-dragged-into-apples-app-store-suit-against-amazon\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}