What do motorcycle parts and accessories have to do with computer parts and accessories? Can anyone really confuse the two? Can we hold the exclusive rights to a common English word? For those of you that cycle, you may know of White Lightning Lube that been around since the mid 90's. Do I smell a lawsuit on the way??

Originally Posted by wrenchy

What do motorcycle parts and accessories have to do with computer parts and accessories? Can anyone really confuse the two? Can we hold the exclusive rights to a common English word? For those of you that cycle, you may know of White Lightning Lube that been around since the mid 90's. Do I smell a lawsuit on the way??

From TFA:

At first glance I thought that the transfer of the trademark from Harley-Davidson to Apple illustrated Harley's original International Classes of 009 and 028, especially because it covers items such as motorcycle electrical parts, protective helmet and turn signals. However, it goes on to protect television sets, games, computer game programs, eye glasses and eyeglass frames; things that would have nothing to do with Harley-Davidson.



The explanation for this clash of covered items under Class 028 likely relates to what we pointed out in area # 3 noted above. There it states that there was a "partial transfer." Meaning that Harley-Davidson may have retained the ability to use certain aspects of the trademark relating to the motorcyle parts and so on. The specifics of the partial transfer weren't revealed.