GadgetRatty: Apple and CBS sued over Mighty Mouse name, lawyers come to save the day

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Apple and CBS sued over Mighty Mouse name, lawyers come to save the day

2008-05-21 13:22:00 by Joshua Fruhlinger in Engadget

Filed under: Peripherals

When you were shopping for waterproof and chemical-resistant mice for your lab computers, you were confused when you wound up with Apple's Mighty Mouse, right? That's what Man & Machine, maker of the other Mighty Mouse, believes is happening, and they're suing Apple and CBS over use of the product name, since their hospital and lab-friendly mouse came out a year before Cupertino's model. Turns out that CBS -- who have owned the cartoon of the same name since 1955 -- sold the name rights to Apple, but Man & Machine are contending that the name in the context of computer peripherals belongs to them. Man & Machine want money damages and a court order blocking Apple's use of the name. They should have just called it Danger Mouse. Oh, wait.

[Via The Inquirer]

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