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Microsoft Sued Over Terraserver

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @03:51PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the trademarks-will-get-you dept.

All Points Blog reports that Microsoft is currently being sued by TerraServer.com over the use of the Terraserver name. From their summary : "Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name.

Terraserver.com filed the suit on Friday in North Carolina federal court, seeking monetary damages and asking that Microsoft be stopped from using the TerraServer name."

For more information, please visit the All Points Blog.

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• A little late

  (Score:2, Insightful)

  by johnjreiser (143) on Friday May 09, @08:48AM (#2353)
  ( http://www.njstateatlas.com/ )

  Shouldn't this have happened a long time ago? Haven't both been around now for about 10 years?

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