Ask HN: Notepods no longer being sold. Anything we can do?
For the unintiated, Notepods were notepads designed for mocking up iPhone and iPad views. Front side had a basic iPhone/iPad view, back at grid lines for any notes or measurements you might want to add. They were beautifully manufactured, extremely useful, and had become indispensable to our business. Our clients remarked on them time and again, as we could do workflows so much quicker.
I've had a brief correspondence with the creator (which is an Australian company; mine is as well, so there's patriotic bias to this request), and while IANAL, I'm wondering how far one can push legal boundaries in this case.
To clarify, the issue is not with the name, but the general likeness. For a product which was designed to mockup iPhone/iPad views, being unlike an iPhone/iPad is not going to be useful to anyone.