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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 16 January 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 2 As for "personal digital assistants; electronic organizers; electronic notepads", I'd suggest that's a reference to various minor capabilities of the iPhone and iPod range.Featured Whitepaper
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So what's the motivation for trademarking OS X? Commentators are coming up with all sorts of speculations, including the old chestnut of OS licensing - if the operating system is sold with a Mac, it'll be Mac OS X, but if it's on another company's hardware then it's just OS X. I don't think so. My interpretation is simple. The reason you register a trademark is to stop other people using it, or a mark that's confusingly similar. Apple's Mac OS trademark was registered in 1996. Once the company began using OS X to describe the variant of its operating system for the iPhone (and later the iPod touch), it made sense to seek protection for that mark as well. Filing the OS X trademark makes sense in terms of what's already happened - there's no need to hypothesise about current or future plans to justify it. Remember Occam's Razor. |
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