http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/ Engadget Comments for Philip K. Dick's estate lawyers up, says Nexus One name is 'clear infringement' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
i say let google fight them. i hate stupid lawsuits.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
i agree, that's one of the MANY things wrong with this country now. All these freakin Frivolous lawsuits.

I think you should counter sue and automatically win anytime someone starts a stupid ass lawsuit against you... And automatically win like 1-5 million... Maybe then people would chill out and STFU, crybabies..]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
lolz]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/And that's why god created FRCP Rule 11]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Isa Dick!?!

ISA DICK!?!

How ironic a name is that?]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Not ironic at all, actually, given the stupidity of this lawsuit.

(And I'm a PKD fan).]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Dear engadget,

Gadget blogging was my idea! Please submit payment immediately to make me go away and get good PR.

Sincerely Yours,
Why should I have all the fun.

cc: Lame-Ass Attorneys at Law, LLC]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
If I can recall, on the presentation of Nexus One, Developers manage to state that the origination of Nexus came from a dictionary
not on this sci-fil film derived from Mr. Dick's book. Anyway, I'm sure goog has an android for that! Nexus One lawsuit details: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-updates-mashup-details
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Nilay means the estate has no registered trademark. But, you can still get common-law trademark rights through use (i.e. if you started selling a soft drink called "TheyLive Cola" but didn't file for a federal registered trademark, you would still have trademark rights as of the day you started selling your cola).

I'm not saying that the PKD estate acquired common law rights either (as someone else pointed out, Dick's use of Nexus-6 was not as a trademark, so it is doubtful it would have acquired common-law trademark rights), but that would be the basis of the estate's claim to rights.]]>Jan 7th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
I met a girl whose last name was Butt. She had a great one too. :)

]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
I had a friend with the unfortunate name of Harry Balls- no joke. His parents must have been drunk when they filled out the birth forms. Or maybe it was a rough delivery and they already hated him.]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
DICK by name. DICK by nature]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
He's dead, he has no say in this.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.google.com/search?q=nexus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

There's like gazillion Nexus variations for various use. ]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
But only ONE use that is actually being used for a major product that is about to be launched nationwide and soon to be overseas in Europe.

So yeah your argument fails. The Google Phone is the only item I can recall that is using Nexus in an significant way.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Maybe Google engineered their search engine to make it LOOK that way.... just kidding, but kind of ironic that you're using the defense's search engine to prove your point.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
PS: Orson Scott Card should sue every tablet maker, because he envisioned it so well in Ender's Game.

And what about those satellites... oh wait...]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
I think this one is a stretch.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Android fanboys losing their minds in 3, 2, 1....

For the record he's not a dick. He's a man who came up with the term and he has EVERY RIGHT to sue if he wants to.

More power to him.

Perhaps Google should have thought more about it....]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
>He's a man who came up with the term

Yeah, except you know, not.

1663, "bond, link, means of communication," from L. nexus, pp. of nectere "to bind," from PIE base *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).

or

Origin:
1655–65; < L nexus a binding, joining, fastening, equiv. to nect(ere) to bind, fasten, tie + -tus suffix of v. action, with ]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Yep.

These companies have to know you cant just usurp names that infringe on other people's IP just because. "Nexis One" obviously wasn't just pulled out of thin air at Google HQ.



]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
See I was right....

If this were Google suing you'd all be for it. Or if it was Apple being SUED you'll scream YESSSS!

Hypocrites one and all.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
He came up with the term 'Nexus'?

I suspect you don't know your Latin sir.

And besides that, you don't seem to recognise that words can be used more than once, by more than one person.

Wikipedia for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
no one here is a hypocrite, you're just a moran.

(and now I wait for you to correct my spelling of "moron" and in doing so, further proving my point)]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Are you referencing this beauty?
http://www.thundersquee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/moran.jpg ]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/but.. but.. it's got a NUMBER at the end!]]>Jan 7th 2010 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
I saw this on Consumerist earlier today. I never made the connection between the Nexus One & 'Blade Runner' or 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'...Now I'll always connect them (lol)

I say let Google fight. ]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
What happens if I search for Dick on Google? ]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Try Google Images aswell.
]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
I think craigslist might be a little more efficient for you... ]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/
Perhaps a google search for "dick" to see if it returns any results?]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/You win this one.

This time I'm going to look for Google on my Dick.]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/philip-k-dicks-estate-lawyers-up-says-nexus-one-name-is-cle/Jan 6th 2010 4:35PM