The Philippine Court of Appeals has prohibited a telephone repair and alarms system company from using the word “Intel” in its business name. Apparently, the US-based Intel Corp. and its Philippine subsidiaries own the name.

The Inquirer further reports that: “The appellate court thus upheld a Securities and Exchange Commission order that directed the Manila-based Intel Communication Trading Corp. to strike “Intel” from its name.”

Guess that means they cant use “Apple” or “AMD” in their name either….

It said that even before it registered its trademark in the Philippines, Intel Corp. was already well-known because it had “predominantly invaded all of the personal computers in the Philippines during the early nineties to the present.”

The court also pointed out that the Philippines is a signatory to the Paris Convention, which states that countries should prohibit the use of a trademark that is considered an imitation or reproduction of another mark that is already well-known.

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