Bose has now decided that they not only own the decimal point (like when they sued Thiel for using decimal places for their speaker model numbers), but the word "Lifestyle" as well. Inexplicably, they've decided to sue CEDIA, which is actually a trade organization that they belong to, for its use of the term "electronic lifestyles." Stuff like this just pisses me off, because it's yet another faceless corporation trying to claim ownership on terms and ideas that they had no part in developing, and that were commonly used well before they even tried to make it their trademark. Kind of like how Amazon's now enforcing their patent on "one click" shopping ... ridiculous.

http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/1103/07.cedia.shtml

Now that Bose's lawyers have been turned loose, why don't they sue Apple for advertising the Mac as the hub of the "digital lifestyle"?

Or if we want to play dirty pool, maybe someone should write to the makers of Lifestyle condoms, and have them sue Bose for irreparably damaging THEIR trademark. I mean, if I manufactured condoms, I sure wouldn't want my products to be associated with Bose! Last thing I'd want would be for customers to think that my products were overpriced, underperforming products that are built with cheap materials, and famous for being undersized and making use of questionable technologies like appendages that point in the wrong direction.