> On 3 Dec 2014, at 9:15 am, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 02 Dec2014, at 21:05, jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> >>> The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”. >> >> That is the name of the software. >> I've seen three or four different names for the vendor. >> >>> Who then is getting this money? >> >> Scammers. > > Well, maybe. Recall that Google owns Quickoffice. They distribute their > incorporated version as Google Docs, even for iOS. It is possible that the > Lee Elman I’ve contacted via LinkedIn is a “scammer.” But also perhaps not. > Apple’s iTunes Store is, as I noted, hardly the garden of sanity one might > hope to find.
I’m willing to bet a lot of money that this is a scammer. There are literally hundreds of rip-off apps on the app store re-using common names, some even being exact copies of other apps which are stripped of their DRM and re-signed using the scammer’s certificate. I myself have been burnt by this, both by people selling copies of UX Write under different names, and also using the UX Write name to sell a different app (which was a copy of Dataviz’s Documents to Go). Apple don’t care. You have to put in a *lot* of effort for them to take down or fix a case of infringement (in my case this meant personally meeting with app store representatives at WWDC). Usually they’ll just refer you to their legal department, who will then ask you to resolve the issue directly with the developer. And in this case it’s not even the OpenOffice trademark being violated - IANAL, but I would assume an incorrect link wouldn’t qualify. Probably the only viable way to get it changed is to submit a request to http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices/ <http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices/> and with luck they will give you the email address of the person who uploaded it. Then that person can be contacted and asked to change the link (which shouldn’t make any difference to them as they can continue to make money off of the QuickOffice trademark). The actual trademark violation is a separate issue, and one for Google/Apple to deal with. -- Dr. Peter M. Kelly kelly...@gmail.com http://www.kellypmk.net/ PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
