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Trademark infringement? Not like-wii

joystiq.com — GamePolitics recently posted a piece on Forbis, the makers of the weemote, and an issue that is all too familiar in Trademark law: trademark infringement. To summarize the GamePolitics piece, Forbis Technologies trademarked "weemote" in the year 2000 for a children's television remote. According to a Time piece on the weemote, sales have fallen con

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  • atomicpoet, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3Yeah, but Nintendo doesn't officially call it "wiimote". If they're going to sue anyone, it should be the fans who came up with the nickname.
  • philipz78, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2This reminds me of a dollar store knock off of iPod headphones in 2006 (I think it was the Dollarama chain in Canada). These headphones looked like iPod headphones, but nobody would mix the 2 upon close inspection (or listeneing to it). The name on the package: iPhones.

    Obviously, Apple would massacre the Chinese importer in court, but I don't think they even bothered.
  • t3hmyth, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2Wow, that's such a bad pun...

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