Apart from the same three letters in the name, I fail to see how consumers could mistake or confuse Skype for Sky, can you?įortunately for Skype, the ruling doesn’t mean that Microsoft needs to change the name of its popular software or undergo a rebrand, but it does mean that, if they wanted to, Sky could force Microsoft to pay a license fee for the right to use the ‘sky-‘ prefix. Remarkably, the EU courts agreed with Sky, ruling that “conceptually”, the blue and white bubble-like Skype logo looked a bit like clouds, clouds are found ‘in the sky’, ergo consumers might mistake the Skype video chat software for the Sky broadcasting company. The complainant is Sky, the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcasting company, which argued that Skype should not be allowed to trademark its name since it was an infringement of Sky’s trademark. In a controversial decision by the General Court of the European Union, Microsoft has been blocked from filing a trademark application for its video chat software Skype.
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