When Apple first announced the iPad, it did not own the trademark on the name. Now, after some negotiating with Fujitsu, it does, and just in time for its touch-screen tablet to go on sale next week.
The blog PatentAuthority tracked down the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office document Friday that shows Fujitsu turned the iPad trademark over to Apple officially on March 17. Though it's not disclosed, we can assume that Fujitsu was compensated in some way for assigning that trademark, which it has owned since 2003, to Apple.
Here's the document showing Apple's ownership of the iPad name:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dp3J-GruePkJ:news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20001294-260.html+Ipad+vs+Fujitsu&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Oh, and the other thing I want: A *low-key* app store. A big reason I have little interest in the iPad is that it’s *all about* the app store. Apple isn’t selling us tablets; it’s selling developers and advertisers tablet buyers. The iPad has relatively little function until you splurge a few dollars here, a few dollars there. It is, in the very literal sense, a consumer machine, with little to offer a user with a creative or expessive bent. (Yes, there are counter-examples; I said little, not nothing.) My money goes to the first tablet that shows me not only an app store for those few items I think will enhance my creativity or expessiveness but also a pretty decent basic bundle of software that covers that need right out of the box, roughly competitive with the apps you get on a Windows or Snow Leopard box.
Friday, July 2, 2010
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