Appigo Threatens to Sue Android Developer on a Minor Technicality

Android Phones — By Cat Johnes on August 4, 2012 at 9:37 am

Ultimately it is the software war that seems to be holding everyone’s attention. Now, a developer of applications for Apple Inc. has thought it fit to threaten an Android application developer for using the To Do word without obtaining prior consent from them.

Did we hear you say what next? The wrangle for ownership of patents and their zealous safeguard seem to be the overriding concern with just about everyone in the technology sector.

The said developer creates applications for Apple’s IOS platform has sent a letter to the Android developer threatening to sue them for using the ToDo word in their Star Trek ToDo agenda. The Apple iOS developer Appigo has stated that it owns the rights to the use of the word ToDo and the use of the same by a rival is bound to create confusion in the minds of the valued customers has to whose products of services one is talking about.
And hence this move!

However, the story does not end here. As it seems, Appigo may find the going a little more tougher than what it is expecting it to be at the moment.

We say this because, what Appigo owns is the intellectual rights to the use of the Spanish word ToDo and not an interesting take on the English phrase to-do. This vital technicality has been pointed out by Mr David Ruddock of Android Police.

He clarified that Appigo in all likelihood would not have even got the rights if it had applied for a fanciful spelling of the to-do phrase. As then, the developer would have had to provide a secondary meaning for the same as well.

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