Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors
Apple trademarks "Mobile Me"
According to Apple Insider, Apple has filed a
request with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the phrase "Mobile Me." The request
is divided into four main sections. The first concerns, "...Computer services; computer data recovery; data
analysis being computer services; computer programming; updating of computer software; maintenance of computer
software, computer and communications networks, and computer systems..."Next, the request discusses "...providing digital music from local or global communications networks, including the internet, intranets, extranets, television, mobile communication, cellular and satellite networks; operating chat rooms..." The same phrase is repeated to include audio books, electronics games, information regarding music and "...seminars and training courses relating to science, engineering, computer systems and business."
The remaining sections discuss portable devices, and are by far the most interesting: "...Portable digital electronic devices and software related thereto; handheld digital electronic devices and software related thereto; digital audio players, including digital music players, and software related thereto..."
It goes on from there. Of course, it could just be an example of Apple wanting to protect ideas that may or may not see the light of day in the future.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jacob Varghese said 3:48PM on 1-12-2006
They always cover all bases in their trademark filings, but the end product could end up being much more boring. Remember how exciting Vingle's filing sounded. We all drooled at the possibilities. It ended up being boring video+music purchase combos.
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Porchland said 4:03PM on 1-12-2006
Newton 2.0
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Jan Kabili said 4:19PM on 1-12-2006
The buzz (again) is iPhones.
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tdungan said 6:54PM on 1-12-2006
I wish it was something like OS X mobile for embedded devices like phones or PDAs (ie Porchland's Newton 2.0). But (like Jacob) I think it will turn out to be something more mundane like using iSync and .Mac to share settings across multiple machines.
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iFelix said 4:05AM on 1-13-2006
I would like to see an Apple PDA of some kind.
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