Report: Apple Sues Amazon Over Use of 'App Store'

Apple has sued Amazon.com, trying to block the latter company's use of "App Store," according to a report.
Bloomberg News reported Monday that Apple had filed the suit on March 18 in a California court. The suit was not available on PACER, the site which archives federal court documents.
Apple representatives did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
According to the suit, Amazon.com began using the App Store designation around the beginning of this year, Bloomberg reported. Apple claimed that Amazon has been advertising on its website a program called Angry Birds Rio that will be offered soon.
Interestingly, Intel said Monday that it had teamed with Best Buy to give 50,000 people a free copy of the Intel AppUp center version of the popular casual game, Angry Birds. Free copies of Angry Birds, which is usually $4.99, are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis for new customers that download and register for the Intel AppUp center. Users can sign up at the AppUp site. Intel has referred to AppUp as an app store in the past.

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Last week a Web page for the Amazon app store (www.amazon.com/apps) was discovered, revealing a selection of 48 apps and their prices - many of which undercut Google's Android Market. But the page has since been removed, and now navigates to the Amazon homepage.
Earlier this month, a tweet from Millennial Media said the store would open this month. Then a week ago, game developer Rovio said that its highly anticipated "Angry Birds Rio" game will be one of the first available in the Amazon App Store. Rovio has previously said Angry Birds Rio would launch on March 22.
Amazon has made no official announcement of a launch date; its stance has been that the store would launch "later this year."