Hardware Labs sees off Nvidia trademark sueball-smasher in court Nvidia’s attempt to nix an EU trademark infringement sueball by using the English courts has failed after a judge said a lawyer’s letter from Germany could not be regarded as a threat to sue in London. Hardware Labs Performance Systems Inc, a Philippines-based maker of computer cooling systems, instructed a German lawyer to …
What the poster means there is nothing wrong with having a car called GTX and a PC part called GTX.
Just like you can open Kebab shop called Microsoft, so long as your logo is significantly different.
The trademark infringement happens when you are in a similar market and / or likely to cause confusion.
"did Sky sue Skype before m$ bought them out?"
Dunno. But does it actually matter?
The relevancy is that Sky actually thought people would get confused between Satellite TV and a PC program simply because "Sky" was in the name and the logo (to a blind man) looked vaguely the same.
Off to register FFS and idiot, which will be the new name for my rubber coated stones, these will be used for coating driveways and throwing at people. Loads of grip, no crunch noise when you walk on them and only pence to make, so $$PROFIT$$, available to idiots and called FFS because they are "Forced Feedback Stones",
Should be able to stop manufacturing in a couple of years then make millions from the legal stuff instead.
The only problem is that some have rounded corners due to the manufacturing process, but I don't expect anyone will object to that minor problem
methinks that the green team just tried to throw their weight around here and got punched back by a company from the third world.
a quick trademark search for gtx shows that nvidia also backed off from an opposition issued by hardware labs a few years ago.
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/011947082
they're either dealing with a very sophisticated company (from the philippine) or were very sloppy in their case preparation. or maybe both. why else would they file an application and then ask for a stay?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
First, as people have mentioned, names like GTS, GTX etc are quite generic amongst performance devices.
nVidia also seem to have Prior art, as they've been using GTS since the 'GeForce2 GTS' in 2000, and GTX since at least 2005.
Hardware Labs, as far as I can tell from some searching (please correct me if anyone knows different), were founded in 2005, and made car parts back then!
At some point since then (and presumably after nVidia had been using the GTS and GTX names), they switched from producing car parts, to PC cooling radiators, and it's these radiators that have the GTS/GTX name.
So the only commonality, other than the name, is they are both for use in a PC, but otherwise are completely different product categories.
How exactly is anyone going to confuse a liquid cooling radiator, with a GFX Card?
Especially as these will be PC enthusiast components, i.e. people who build their own systems, and so can easily figure out what's what!
I can't see how Hardware Labs has a leg to stand on here, and I'd think this could even damage their own market, as any nVidia fanboy out there (and there are lots), on hearing about this, are likely to add Hardware Labs to their black-list, and go get their cooling solution from someone else!
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