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Fujitsu Possibly Gearing Up For Fight Over 'iPad' Trademark in U.S.
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Didn't apple come up with the whole "i" craze?
If that's the case, it kind of seems silly for another company to try to sue them after ripping off their product designation in the first place.
Sure. That's probably the explanation why Apple had to pay millions to Cisco for the iPhone trademark...
Stupid Name.
Classic. Jobs should wakeup and get a whole team to come up with a new name and remember what he so flippantly said to the iPodRip guy.
iBook sounds interesting given it separates itself from the "MacBook" line. Kind of a halfway between the iPod/iPhone and the MacBook/PowerBook. Exactly what Jobs said in his keynote. The only thing would be the name's previous history, but I'd say, they can talk some ******** to say that its the upgraded concept version of the old ones.
iTab - Sounds cheap
iSlate - Sounds too vulgar
iTablet - This is too obvious. No attraction to the product.
iBook - good compromise.
Besides all of that, still...whatabout iPod Max? This product is essentially an oversized iPod touch. Useless and pointless.
Classic. Jobs should wakeup and get a whole team to come up with a new name and remember what he so flippantly said to the iPodRip guy.
iBook sounds interesting given it separates itself from the "MacBook" line. Kind of a halfway between the iPod/iPhone and the MacBook/PowerBook. Exactly what Jobs said in his keynote. The only thing would be the name's previous history, but I'd say, they can talk some ******** to say that its the upgraded concept version of the old ones.
iTab - Sounds cheap
iSlate - Sounds too vulgar
iTablet - This is too obvious. No attraction to the product.
iBook - good compromise.
Besides all of that, still...whatabout iPod Max? This product is essentially an oversized iPod touch. Useless and pointless.
Today at the brand new Apple Store in Frankfurt Germany
I payed our new gem a visit today first time after launchday a week ago.
Walking around in the store on my way to the genius bar i kind of freaked out....
I could not believe what i saw. The had it on site: the iPAD!
Unfortunately it was the famous Fujitsu iPAD in question above.
No kidding. They use it as mobile cash registers because the cash-out iPod Touches are not yet localized for german markets.
It made me LoL.
I payed our new gem a visit today first time after launchday a week ago.
Walking around in the store on my way to the genius bar i kind of freaked out....
I could not believe what i saw. The had it on site: the iPAD!
Unfortunately it was the famous Fujitsu iPAD in question above.
No kidding. They use it as mobile cash registers because the cash-out iPod Touches are not yet localized for german markets.
It made me LoL.
Ummm. Let's turn it around. If iBook was such an important trademark for Apple, why did they stop selling it and why/how could they forget they had the trademark?
Interesting but mostly irrelevant. And there are many more IPAD trademarks, live (active) or dead (abandoned, withdrawn). With trademark applications you have to submit the international usage classification/s that the mark applies to. You can have several/many classifications but you don't ever own all possible uses of a trademark.
Both Apple and Fujitsu have applied for IC 009 classification--computers, electronics...etc. It remains to be seen what happens. It's not a case of either Apple or Fujitsu having a clear-cut right to the mark.
Then beyond the actual regulations covering trademarks, there is the case law or new litigation which may or may not support your right to use a mark, regardless of what the USPTO determined. For instance, Apple owns iPod for electronics. If a stop watch maker calls a device iPod, and even gets a trademark for it, Apple can still sue them because they are trading on the significant financial and marketing investment Apple has made in the name, and they always bring up the issue of confusion in the marketplace.
Only if Fujitsu wants to stop selling to Apple
Fujitsu's application for registration is narrow.
The likelihood of confusion is almost zero.
Fujitsu makes chips and components used in computers.
Does Fujitsu really want to piss-off Steve Jobs?
As far as the name, it was the natural. Short. Similar to
iMac, iBook, iPod.
Anyone giggling about it being a "pad", must never use a pad of paper or sit on a padded chair without giggling too. Grow up
Fujitsu's application for registration is narrow.
The likelihood of confusion is almost zero.
Fujitsu makes chips and components used in computers.
Does Fujitsu really want to piss-off Steve Jobs?As far as the name, it was the natural. Short. Similar to
iMac, iBook, iPod. Anyone giggling about it being a "pad", must never use a pad of paper or sit on a padded chair without giggling too. Grow up
'Towels' generally although 'pads' is erm "leaking" into the language as more and more American-isms take hold in English, especially in products from global brands. I'm male but I asked the three ladies of the house (trust me it's hell) what they called them and they all said 'towel' but reading the packet, Always call them 'pads'. Always are a US company though aren't they?
I guess we're just more adult about it though and the most common usage of pad in the UK is notepad or writing pad.
Do you all giggle at your computer having a track pad also?
Thank you for the sanity check. While I very much dislike the iPad name (mainly because it is too similar to iPod, and also because I'm sick and tired of the iThing nomenclature - Apple could have (and should have) done better), I in no way associate it with tampons, unlike our many friends here who appear stuck in a 3rd-grade mentality. So absurd.
Helipad, notepad, legal pad, sketchpad, shoulder pad, trackpad, launchpad, Pad Thai - none are funny. iPad - hilarious! If this name were from any other company (say...Fujitsu), no one would think anything of it.
Seriously people, grow up already.
My research seems to indicate that the vast majority of these "pad" jokes and memes are originating from 4chan, which a) is not surprising, and b) (or more appropriately, "/b/") makes them that much more irrelevant and less deserving of anyone's attention.
Another Name Problem for Apple and the iPad
See the link below - a kitset house company in New Zealand with trade mark on iPad - perhaps it comes with an iPad in every room?
http://www.ipad.net.nz/
See the link below - a kitset house company in New Zealand with trade mark on iPad - perhaps it comes with an iPad in every room?
http://www.ipad.net.nz/
well, i think iNewton is a creative name for this new device. iPad is horrible.
Shouldn't be a problem, at least in the US.
According to BitLaw:
I don't think that people will confuse the tablet with a house.