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Google accused of plagiarizing the name Nexus One of the play that inspired Blade Runner

by Web Software design on Jan 8th, 2010

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Barely three days after Google in their own society smartphone , the named Nexus One, and you are beginning to be “born Dwarfs” around particular problems come from his name.

It turns out that the daughter of Philip K. Dick, author of the novel “ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ” In which Ridley Scott was inspired to film Blade Runner, says they’re suing the search behemoth as consider that they have violated their intellectual property rights in the work by calling his mobile Nexus One .

Ensures that Google is plagiarizing the name Nexus-6 created by his father to name the most advanced artificial human in his famous work of science fiction. On the other side also believes that because of the similarity of names between Google and terminal operating system (Android) and replicating model and the original title of the work ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ) people can easily associate with the Nexus One novel.

Server with a clear goal, another case in which the heirs of a great want to lash out at a large company to get her out as much money as possible. But this time the case is not clear and there is little chance that if the heirs of Philip finally decide to take legal action to resolve justice for them. For example we have the word Nexus is not registered as a trademark and is also a common word.

Via: Times Online


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