Apple's legal action against Amazon following the launch of its Appstore for Android depends on one, single issue: whether the term 'app store' is generic or not. Both Amazon and Microsoft have argued ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Trademark Trial & Appeal Board rulings, finding that a previously generic term was not generic at the time registration was sought because at ...

Apple Inc. said "app store" isn't a generic term that can be used by Amazon.com Inc. and denied the words together stand for a store for application programs, the iPod maker said in its trademark case ...