Apple vs. Sex Toy Makers

Apple is unhappy with the advertising on the website of the iBuzz and MP3 powered vibrator.

Specifically, what LoveLabs describes as an “animation showing silhouettes of girls diddling themselves silly” is, in the words of Apple legal enforcer Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP “may have been copied or substantially copied from those in which our client own the copyright, without our client’s consent…”

Apple a-quiver over iPod vibrator copyright clash

Last month there was a story about the gPod:

Kameda’s commercial pride and joy is actually a women’s sex aid worn inside her most intimate orifices and buzzing her with good vibrations when set off by sound.

Though the Japanese Patent Agency gave him the right to use the devise in August last year, and the trademark he chose for the product was approved two months later, he still hasn’t been able to sell. The problem? He called the product the gPod, presumably after the G-Spot and jii, the Japanese word for masturbation. Kameda has since found out his choice of product name was like, well, taking a bite out of a rotten apple.

Buzz on handy gPod a poison apple for US giant