Apple Loses the iPad Mini Trademark 144
An anonymous reader writes in with bad news for Apple. "It would appear that Apple has lost an attempt to trademark the 'iPad Mini.' This time it's not nefarious foreigners subverting the just order of things simply by trademarking something several years before Apple did. No, that was what happened in Brazil with the IFone. Nor is it people nefariously selling the rights to everywhere but China but Apple's lawyers didn’t notice, as happened with iPad in China. No, this time it's the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office saying that Apple simply cannot have a trademark on 'iPad Mini.' For the simple reason that the law doesn't allow them to trademark something which is just a description of the product."
I suppose this also means (Score:5, Funny)
... our hopes of seeing an iPad Maxi are dashed, then?
Re:They rejected the entire mark, not just "mini". (Score:4, Funny)
Come on, most of Microsoft's software products have merely descriptive names: Windows, Word, Internet Explorer...
Re:They rejected the entire mark, not just "mini". (Score:3, Funny)
But, but, but they put their "i" in front of it. Everyone knows that they own the lowercase "i".
Re:They rejected the entire mark, not just "mini". (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I suppose this also means (Score:5, Funny)
A shame, really, because it would be on the bleeding edge...
In other news: (Score:2, Funny)
Disney had to rename Minnie Mouse to "Mouse 0.5".
Re:XL T-shirt (Score:5, Funny)
I guess things have changed. Back in my day, the guys supplying the beer usually had a really good shot at getting laid.