Microsoft applies for trademark on 'Mod'

Back on December 9, Microsoft applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a trademark on "Mod."

Might this be Microsoft's long-awaited replacement for "Metro"? In August 2012, just before launching Windows 8, Microsoft officials conceded that the company would no longer be using "Metro" to describe the tiled interface and design language at the heart of its Windows Phone and Windows operating systems. Though Microsoft officials never admitted publicly the reason for the pull-back, a naming dispute with the German partner Metro Group is believed to be the reason behind Microsoft's Metro naming crisis.

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[CountMike]

In some countries (like France and Serbia "Metro" also means Subway, Underground, there's Metro Toronto too, meaning conglomeration of municipalities that make the "Toronto Metro Area", there's also a chain of large shopping malls in Serbia. It would be a real mess if everybody started to ban others to use that word. Metro is just a word used to describe something and is in extensive use all by itself, just too much for a company to lay claim to it.

 

[whs]

Yeah right. Here are some of the coolest 'Metros'. Watch the video at the end of the page.

Cool subway stations

 

[PaulGo]

A custom rom manufacturer that publishes a lot of roms for many different Android devices CyanogenMod has been using that name for several year and I believe they have a trademark for that name.

 

[Rickkins]

Here in Montreal, our subway system is called the Metro... and we have a chain of grocery stores called Metro as well.(no relation to each other)