Roxio has also picked up the story we earlier posted about. In this posting we reported that Roxio was taking legal actions against Poikosoft, the developers of Easy CD-DA extractor, software that was according to Roxio named after their software Easy CD Creator.
TheRegister now reports that Roxio hasn't decided if it is to pursue litigation against Poikosoft for trademark infringement.
Poikolanien responded that the software does not perform the same function: Roxio's Creator is a ripper, and Extractor is, as you might suspect, an audio ripper and encoder. He pointed out that a large number of audio products with "Easy" in the name, but hasn't heard back. |
Roxio registered its "Easy CD Creator" trademark in the EU in August.
So is no news is good news for the Finnish developer? It's too early to say.
"We're not at the point yet," a Roxio spokesperson told The Registertoday; Roxio's legal department has not made the decision whether to go forward with the case.
Only last week Roxio settled its dispute with Gracenote, after the latter acquired the user-contributed CDDB CD database of song titles and track information, and began to demand license fees for access. Roxio switched its software to point to the free freedb database instead. Gracenote sued Roxio, claiming the latter had violated the DMCA. Roxio then countersued Gracenote.
Well it's still Roxio, an American company, and we all know they don't really fear sueing someone over there
Source: TheRegister.co.uk
