Apple iBooks trademark under fire from independent book publisher
4 06 2012June 16, 2011
A small book publisher from New York is suing Apple over its use of the term “iBooks” for its e-book store and e-reader app for iOS. John T. Colby, Jr., owner of several small independent publishing imprints, filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday for trademark infringement.
Colby is the owner and founder of Brick Tower Press and J. Boylston & Company. According to the lawsuit, between 2006 and 2007, Colby bought the assets of publisher Byron Preiss, which included an entire library of sci-fi and fantasy books published under the “ibooks” imprint. Those books date back as far as 1999.
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