Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch'

suraj.sun sends this excerpt from MacRumors: "In a decision handed down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been denied an application for a trademark on Multi-Touch. ... For trademarks, 'the greater the degree of descriptiveness the term has, the heavier the burden to prove it has attained secondary meaning.' The trademark attorney pointed out that the term 'multitouch' has taken on generic meaning, being used by a wide variety of publications to describe the touchscreen technology on Android phones, tablets, and notebooks."

Secondary Meaning

[Anonymous Coward]

Paul Reubens already has the trademark on a secondary meaning for "multi-touch"

multi-touch?

[nopainogain]

my catholic school had a priest with a trademark for something like that.

Re:Good News

[dgatwood]

I'm really hoping for a pony. And unicorns. Just saying.

Re:Legal idiocy

[plover]

The Apple trademark lawyers in this instance were either very stupid, very lazy, or very self-interested. ;)

Would you settle for "very rich"?

Actually, that's what sets you apart from them. They wouldn't settle for merely "very rich", which is why they're now "filthy rich".

Re:Secondary Meaning

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, you beat me to the punchline, I was going to say the Catholic church had prior art.