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DENVER, March 28 (UPI) -- Two companies are in a legal battle over one of the less dignified applications for iPhones, using the phone to make the noise of someone breaking wind.
Air-O-Matic in Florida has the "Pull My Finger" application, which had a run as the second most popular iPhone app, The Denver Post reports. InfoMedia, a Loveland, Colo., company, offers a selection of noises -- "Jack the Ripper," "Brown Mosquito" and "Burrito Maximo."
Recently, Air-O-Matic sent InfoMedia a "cease and desist" letter saying it should remove the phrase "pull my finger" from its advertising. InfoMedia's counter-argument is that the phrase has long been common slang.
"When you say that phrase, it may be more likely to take you back to your junior high school days as opposed to thinking of a particular iPhone application," trademark lawyer John Posthumus, who is not involved in the case, told the Post. "But iPhone apps are a big business and I can see why a company would be interested in protecting a trademark."
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