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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 06:39 AM
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DENVER, March 28 (UPI) -- Two companies are in a legal battle over one of the less dignified applications for iPhones, using the phone to make the noise of someone breaking wind.

Air-O-Matic in Florida has the "Pull My Finger" application, which had a run as the second most popular iPhone app, The Denver Post reports. InfoMedia, a Loveland, Colo., company, offers a selection of noises -- "Jack the Ripper," "Brown Mosquito" and "Burrito Maximo."

Recently, Air-O-Matic sent InfoMedia a "cease and desist" letter saying it should remove the phrase "pull my finger" from its advertising. InfoMedia's counter-argument is that the phrase has long been common slang.

"When you say that phrase, it may be more likely to take you back to your junior high school days as opposed to thinking of a particular iPhone application," trademark lawyer John Posthumus, who is not involved in the case, told the Post. "But iPhone apps are a big business and I can see why a company would be interested in protecting a trademark."


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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 10:54 AM
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Is that news real or are they just pulling our legs (or our fingers)?


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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 10:57 AM
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QUOTE (El Huesudo II @ Mar 28 2009, 08:54 AM)
Is that news real or are they just pulling our legs (or our fingers)?

Fingers. I smell the insanity.


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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 10:59 AM
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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 11:05 AM
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"Jack the Ripper" "Brown Mosquito" "Burrito Maximo"
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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 12:16 PM
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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 01:19 PM
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What a load of crap.


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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 01:26 PM
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is there not some 'prior art'-like provision for trademarks or something

given the amount of genericized trademarks already i figure it's impossible to apply that phrase for a trademark anyway


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Posted: Mar 28 2009, 02:51 PM
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Why would you need a fart application when so many people do it anyway?

EDIT: as in making the sound.

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QUOTE (mario4ever @ Mar 28 2009, 01:51 PM)
Why would you need a fart application when so many people do it anyway?

EDIT: as in making the sound.

because it's RANDOM xD


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  Posted: Mar 28 2009, 03:19 PM
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QUOTE (mario4ever @ Mar 28 2009, 11:51 AM)
Why would you need a fart application when so many people do it anyway?

EDIT: as in making the sound.

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"Pull My Finger" application, which had a run as the second most popular iPhone app

to make millions


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