Does Apple own the letter "i"?

11 years ago

Allthough it sounds wierd, I actually think they do. At least in peoples minds.

iProduct has become their trademark way of telling it is a part of their portfolio.

Maybe you will get away with it, but I am sure many of your visitors will be confused or dissapointed when they realize this is not an Apple website or product.

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Raydal

11 years ago

No, Google does as in Internet.

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OrangeBull

11 years ago

Intel would beg to differ, Core i7!

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SunilTanna 11 years ago

Originally Posted by OrangeBull

Intel would beg to differ, Core i7!

No I own it!
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BudaBrit

11 years ago

Perhaps they'd better tell iWriter...

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KimboJim 11 years ago

Originally Posted by BudaBrit

Perhaps they'd better tell iWriter...

This is exactly what I was going to say, I hate when that happens.
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khooster1

11 years ago

Apple don't own "i"..
However, we can easily tap on this free branding.
such as
iDo, iServe, iDon't, etc..

Can be really viral if done properly. Cheers.

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Lloyd Buchinski

11 years ago

I saw a comment about the Steve Jobs yacht, iSore. It fits in here someplace

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Daniel Evans

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dreamlife789

Can you create a website with the letter "i" before it?

You're asking if a website can belong to a domain beginning with an "i"?

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HelpingYouBeAnExpert

11 years ago

It's scary that companies can can do this kind of limitation to what we can say or can write. It's just scary one day we have to tip toe around this. I'm for not allowing them to own it but I'm sure eventually companies will. It suck in my view, but I'm just a minority at this point.

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Rbtmarshall

11 years ago

here is a list of their trademarks, and as mentioned above, they do not own the rights to i+everything

Apple - Legal - Trademark List

Even their IOS operating system, isn't an apple trademark, it's a Cisco trademark

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mikeink

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Rbtmarshall

here is a list of their trademarks, and as mentioned above, they do not own the rights to i+everything

Apple - Legal - Trademark List

Even their IOS operating system, isn't an apple trademark, it's a Cisco trademark

Look at this site and you will get a list that is long.

You will not find it there.

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agmccall

11 years ago

I am not in the "i" niche, but if I were the following .com's are for sale

istuffcheap
istuffblog
istuffhere

These are not owned by me and can be had at namecheap or any other domain seller

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FredJones

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dreamlife789

Can you create a website with the letter "i" before it?

No - and the biggest proof is the existence of iGoogle.

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StevenJones

11 years ago

iDo not think they own the letter i. It's a letter from in alphabet used by people around the world on a daily base.. Though, if they could ask patent on that letter they would probably had done it by now. Imagine paying a few cents everytime we say the letter 'i'! We would be broke.

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rocketscience 11 years ago

Not sure if it was intentional on Apple's part but its a win win situation for everyone really. Other companies get to the hop on the Apple bandwagon with their own i-products, while simultaneously increasing Apple's brand awareness. The BBC i-player immediately springs to mind when it comes to non-Apple i-named devices!
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nicholasb

11 years ago

I would stay away from it, you don't exactly want attention from one of the richest companies in the world. Plus it's not all that original and a bit cliche at this point

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Tony Marriott 11 years ago

I thought it was owned by Sesame Street

Sesame Street Letter I - YouTube
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onegoodman

11 years ago

Companies can't trademark letters, otherwise, we would be would of words to say lol.

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mcario 11 years ago

Originally Posted by onegoodman

Companies can't trademark letters, otherwise, we would be would of words to say lol.

Not sure what took so long for someone to say that . Companies cannot own letters. They can make a design around a specif letter and trademark it but that's about it.
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MissMarketeer

11 years ago

No, Apple does not own the letter "i".

The company I work for (which is in the media industry), has recently changed their name so that they have a small i in front of their old name.

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troy23

11 years ago

No they don't own it.
In the UK we have we long established TV channel called ITV and Apple tried to impose their forthcoming TV brand on it and wanted to use iTV themselves. Thankfully they were told where to go.

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ADRD

11 years ago

I wasn't aware you could own/patent a specific letter with good reason?

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Willie Crawford

11 years ago

iDontKnow, but I do know that some people don't seem to like
iProducts.

For example, I bought my wife an iRon for our anniversary, and
she didn't speak to me for almost a week

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alistair

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Willie Crawford

iDontKnow, but I do know that some people don't seem to like
iProducts.

For example, I bought my wife an iRon for our anniversary, and
she didn't speak to me for almost a week

Willie

Almost a week you say? I'm going to do a bulk buy right now.

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Willie Crawford 11 years ago

Originally Posted by alistair

Almost a week you say? I'm going to do a bulk buy right now.

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Evocess

11 years ago

iDon't think that Apple owns letter "i". If that would be the case the letter "i" should no longer be part of the alphabet. haha

iThink you're asking if you can set up a domain having that begins with "i"? I don't think that there's a problem with that.