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Waiting for Panasonic to sue Nokia | 388 comments | Create New Account
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Waiting for Panasonic to sue Nokia
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 08:50 PM EDT
> because it seems that Nokia will succeed to sell Lumia
> only in Finland Panasonic would have very weak case there.

It is irrelevant whether Nokia succeeds in Finland and not elsewhere. They are
using the trademark 'LUMIA' in many countries. I also not sure why you think
that Panasonic would have a weak case anywhere. If Panasonic have registered
LUMIX and it is found that LUMIA is sufficiently similar in sufficiently close
business areas (they both can be used to take photographs for example) then
Panasonic would have a strong case.

> Nokia could have chosen from the same word

You are mistaken if you think that meaning has any relevance. A trademark is a
_mark_, it is visual. It is irrelevant that other words have similar or distinct
meanings because trademarks are not judged on what the word (or symbol, or
image) may mean.

For example 'Lindows' as a trademark was found to infringe on 'Windows' (even
though the actual trademark is 'Microsoft Windows'.

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