Ios island in Greece claims a trademark over the Apple iOS.
Christos Manolis Papadoyannakis, the mayor of the Greek island of Ios is thinking big, like “100 million dollars big.”
“Apple stole our name and property, just like the Brits took the Parthenon marbles”, says the mayor.
“Nobody malakas takes away an ancient Greek name like Ios and use it without a license,” adds the mayor, while sipping some Greek coffee from a short, white mug that says “Ios is for lovers” on it.
The 42 square mile island has less than 2,000 inhabitants and Christos Manolis Papadoyannakis wants this to be a lottery ticket for all of them, so he’s suing Apple.
“What’s 100 million euro to Apple, eh? Nothing. When Steve Jobs went to Paros he welcome, no? So why bring iOS 6 and no pay Greeks? No fair. So lawsuit decide old name is ours, and Apple is a malakas!” added the mayor, visibly dejected.
With more than 120 million downloads, iOS 6 is the latest update to the popular Apple iPhone and iPad operating system.
The Greeks will have a hard time proving that Apple is violating an ancient local name, but then again, Apple sued the Poles for less than that.
Reporting from Ios, Greece – Yorgo Domainos.
LMAO … if Apple had it’s way it would reform the IPC/WIPO laws to patent Pythagoras theorem and sue anything that has angles on it! 😉
jay – That’s the funniest comment I’ve read all week 😀