Microsoft, HTC, Sony and Nokia together against Apple

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Microsoft, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Nokia have made a formal request to be declared invalid the trademarks App Store and AppStore that Apple has. This formal request has been done in the European Union due to consider the trademarks a generic name.

According to The Wall Street, theses companies challenged the rights of Apple trademarks App Store and AppStore by submitting a formal request to the office of the European Community market.

Microsoft, HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson claim that these terms are "Too generic" to be a trademark of company.

Microsoft and other leading technology companies are trying to invalidate the registration of the trademark of Apple and the App Store AppStore because for them it should not have been granted.

They thinks that “App Store” means exactly what it says, a shop of applications, and is too generic.

Apple registered the Trademark in Europe in July 2008 just a few weeks before to of launching the App Store for the iPhone.

In January 2011, Microsoft filed an opposition to the mark with the Patent and Registration Office of the United States, arguing that the term is "generic and not registrable"

Here we have two sides. For one hand there are Microsoft, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. They think that the trademarks used by Apple are to generic to be patented. It is possible that they have reason. However just a judge will give them the reason or not. For other hand we have Apple. Apple has paid for these trademarks so at the moment they have all the right to explode the names.

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Cyber security plan proposed by White House

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The White House lose thousand dollars every year in cyber attacks.

The US government has submitted a proposal to protect the infrastructure and networks from attacks in order to ensure the privacy of internet users.

The legislative proposal of the administration of President Barack Obama calls to the Department of Homeland Security to assume the task of protect the government computers. It has to be monitoring the detection of intruders and prevention systems.

Obama believes that It would also require upgrading the safety standards of many federal government contractors. The proposal aims to prevent attacks from United States and other countries, including many apparently originated in China.

This new law in the White House would give a new debate in the U.S. Congress about cyber security.

"The cyber security vulnerabilities in our government and infrastructure are crucial and a risk to our national security, public safety and economic prosperity, " said by the White House in a statement.

The office of leader of Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, took the initiative in the Congress on cyber security, gathering proposals sponsored by the chairman of the Commerce Committee, Jay Rockefeller, and of Homeland Security, Joe Lieberman.

A government official said that the White House would like that the Congress approve this year a proposal on cyber security, after a deep discussion that included representatives of industry, privacy advocates and community.

Hackers are responsible for attacks on millions of computers, threatening systems operated by the U.S. government, companies electrical energy and financial companies.

Democrats in the Senate introduced new legislation in February after reports of attacks on computer networks of Nasdaq OMX Group and five multinational oil and gas.

The authorities broke up in April a malware network used to take the control of more than two million computers worldwide and may have led to theft over $ 100 million (70 million euros).

A government official said the White House proposal was result of two years and working environment

In conclusion I think that this measure not only has to be assumed by the US government. Every country must to protect and guaranty the security of people. Currently we are in a moment where everybody have access to internet. The purchases by internet are growing exponentially. It is necessary for ensure the development of the technology more mechanism to protect this new ocean that is internet.

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