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<title>USPTO withdraws main objections to iPad mini trademark</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/08/agency.pulls.objections.without.requiring.new.specimens/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1364477949_ipadmini-white.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Patent and Trademark Office has withdrawn the main objections to Apple's trademark application for the iPad mini, reports say.  The examiner initially rejected the application because the name was seen as descriptive, and due to the official iPad mini page, used as evidence that the product is on sale.  The USPTO actually pulled the objection last Wednesday, but has only just made the news ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hearing-aid company sues Apple over 'EarPod' trademark</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/02/apple.owns.us.trademark.on.earpod.plaintiff.owns.hearpod/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1364929367_Randolph-Divisions-Hearpod-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A company that makes digital hearing aids with the trademark name "HearPod" is suing Apple over its "EarPods" trademark, claiming infringement. Filed in Hawaii, the "HearPod" trademark was originally issued in 2007, five years before Apple introduced its EarPods headphones. Oddly, Randolph Divisions is suing for infringement rather than claiming any harm from consumer confusion between the t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple abandons Newton trademark</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/26/failed.pda.vanishes.from.apples.records/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1361913639_applenewton.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has abandoned claims to the Newton trademark, says Patently Apple.  In searching through documents at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the site discovered that the CIPO deactivated the Canadian Newton trademark on February 12th.  While Apple could still conceivably protect and use the Newton name in the US, the Canadian and US markets are so closely intertwined that this is unlikel...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple wins rights to iPod classic, Newsstand icon designs</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/12/ipod.credited.in.part.to.jonathan.ive/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1360683712_ipod4gpatent.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has won two new design trademarks via the US Patent and Trademark Office.  The first is for the fourth-generation iPod classic, at the time still known as just the iPod.  The fourth-gen, released in 2004, was the last model to be strictly music-only; later the same year the company put out the Photo, which gave the iPod a color screen and let people view images on it.  It also raised capacit...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>USPTO grants trademarks for Apple Store design</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/30/could.be.used.as.weapon.against.clone.stores/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1350182458_Apple-LeawoodKS-robbery-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple trademarks on the design of its retail stores, Reuters reports.  Filings describe a "clear glass storefront surrounded by a paneled facade," and an interior with an "oblong table with stools...set below video screens flush mounted on the back wall."  Apple first applied for the trademarks in May 2010, but only won them on January 22nd of thi...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon wins dismissal of Apple lawsuit over 'Appstore' name</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/02/apple.case.undermined.by.steve.jobs.tim.cook/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1111/amazonappstore2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A federal court in San Francisco has granted a requested dismissal of an Apple lawsuit over Amazon's use of the term "Appstore," Bloomberg reports.  Apple has filed for a US trademark on the name "App Store," and in the court case it argued that Amazon's use of the term "Appstore" is intentionally confusing.  Amazon countered, though, by saying that the term "app store" has become generic; with to...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese government cracking down on 'malicious' trademarks</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/24/policy.change.prompted.in.part.by.apple.v.proview.dispute/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/news/1202/chinaipad2raid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Chinese government is planning to crack down on "malicious" trademark applications, Reuters reports.  A proposed amendment is expected to better protect international brands sold in the country, and give copyright owners the ability to block similar or identical trademark registrations.  The change is said to have been prompted by a number of high-profile incidents, such as the confrontation...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple files for European trademark on logo leaf</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/10/broad.patent.could.potentially.affect.numerous.products/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355177459_appleleaf.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has filed for a trademark on the leaf in its logo, The Register says.  The submission was made to the European Trademark Registry on December 3rd, using lawyers from a London firm called Edwards Wildman.  If granted, the trademark would cover 10 different categories of products, ranging from things like computers and educational products to jewellery and shoes....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple gets rights to 'Lightning' name from Harley-Davidson</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/26/motorcycle.maker.still.retains.some.uses/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1353941523_ipadmini-lightning.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Over the weekend, Apple officially acquired some of the rights to the "Lightning" name from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson, reports say.  Two trademark applications published by the European Union Patent &amp; Trademark Office on Sunday indicate that a transfer of the rights happened on Saturday.  Lightning is still technically protected until 2013, and even after that point Harley-Davidson will b...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple loses Music icon trademark due to MySpace/iLike logo</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/26/rare.defeat.for.apple.legal/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1348695538_musicios.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has been denied a trademark on the orange Music icon used in iOS and elsewhere, reports say.  The US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is this week said to have upheld an examiner's decision on the matter, arguing that Apple's logo is too similar to a trademark owned by MySpace.  In 2008 a mark for an orange logo with a musical note was awarded to music tracki...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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