Apple’s “iPad Mini” Trademark Application Rejected by Patent Office
Office
rejected Apple’s attempt to trademark “iPad Mini,â€* releasing
the official letter today. The office called the term “iPad mini”
“merely descriptive†because “the prefix ‘I’ denotes ‘internet’â€
and “[t]he term ‘pad’ refers to a ‘pad computer’ or ‘internet pad
device,’ terms used synonymously to refer to tablet computers, of
‘a complete computer contained in a touch screen.’†Apple has
trademarked dozens of
names, from “AirDrop†to “Xserve.†AppAdvice.com
notes Apple still has issues to resolve with the trademark of
“iPad†in China and “iPhone†in Mexico and Brazil, where a local
firm is selling something it calls the
IPHONE.
You can read the full patent office’s rejection letter
here.
More Reason on intellectual
property.Â
*iPad, by the way, is trademarked