‘Amazon’ Name Settled

Amazon.com Inc. and a feminist book store called Amazon Bookstore Cooperative settled the shop’s trademark infringement lawsuit for undisclosed terms. Under the settlement, both will be able to use their respective names, with the bookstore required to use its full name in marketing. “We feel very good about the settlement,” said Barb Wieser, president of the Minneapolis bookstore, which started up in 1970. Seattle-based Amazon.com was launched in 1995. Bookstore customers can use its Web site, https://www.amazonfembks.com, on which the store advertises itself as “amazonNOTcom, the original Amazon bookstore.”