This one could spell trouble for apple. From what i could tell on a real quick parse, Tibco's Rendezvous is a proprietary, generic message passing interface (presumably XML based), used to establish communications between their own various 'ebusiness application components'

IIRC the standard for trademark infringement is when the same name describes a product that would be confusingly similar. So, i could name a matchmaking service Rendezvous, because no one would mistake one for the other. That being said, how similar is tibco's message passing system to zeroconf? To me, they're completely different, but to a non expert? They're both "Computer networking software that lets one thing talk to the another and then do something, right?"

I'd like to think this gets tossed out, but...

Apple sued over use of Rendezvous trademark