Microsoft Nokia to apply for revocation of App Store logo

The News (reporter Lin Chiling) at the weekend, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and HTC4, respectively, to the EU Trademark Office of the independent application, hoping to remove Apple's own "app Store" and "app stores" trademarks. Microsoft said it wanted to repeal the two registered trademarks because of the lack of "dialectic" of the two trademarks.　　A Nokia spokeswoman said the App store meant an "app" store, and the "app" itself was the generic term for services covered by the registered trademark. Apple declined to comment.　　Nokia and Sony Ericsson spokesmen have confirmed the application. It is reported that Apple opened the app Store in 2008 to provide users with Apple's official and third-party development applications. Apple's App Store offers more than 350,000 apps for the iphone, ipod and ipad.　　According to the US market research firm ISUPPLI, the business will also generate $2.91 billion trillion in revenue for Apple in 2011 years. The App Store, run by Apple, Google, Nokia and rim, estimated 2.1 billion dollars in sales last year, ISUPPLI estimates. Apple currently accounts for three-fourths of the industry's revenue, but is lagging behind Google. Foreign media said that no matter what the EU Trademark Office decision, companies can appeal to the European Union Supreme Court.