
What Apple did was to start a lawsuit against the iPod Mechanic, a small iPod repair business based in Michigan. The accusations are pretty simple - Apple claims that Nicholas Woodhams, the man behind iPod Mechanic, misused Apple's "iPod" and "Pod" trademarks on his company's website, and for the name itself, of course.
To make it all even worse, Nicholas is also accused of fraud, because he convinced Apple to send him free components, one example being his exploitation of the iPod shuffle Advance Replacement Program in 2007. The story is a bit more complicated, but I even noticed customer complaints about iPod Mechanic, one of them being available here.
As usual, I am sure the truth is somewhere in between, but I am amazed - as always - by how Apple hags on to these trademarks, even when doing such things is completely lame...