this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment
>The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas
So first...google is NOT the Copyright owner of "Droid", second the Android OS was named after an already existing Word in the same domain.
EDIT:
He wrote that in his own Post and from my point he is right:
> "Droid" is a dictionary word and first coined in 1952 by a American science fiction author.
Quote:
Droid: Clipping of android. Coined by American science fiction author Mari Wolf in Robots of the World! Arise! (1952), and popularised by the film Star Wars (1977).
Droid is a trademark of "Lucas Films" now Disney since circa 1990.
Possible that Google has licensed "Droid" from Lucas now Disney for using in android
"Android" itself is a dictionary word.Or do you want to sue everyone that has Andr (Man) in his name?
1) trademark don't cover just exact matches
2) trademarks are in their own classes, you can't litigate across classes
3) common words are perfectly fine as trademarks, as long as commonly associated with a product
Yes exactly and Droid is NOT associated with a Smartphone-OS but Android is.