Apple's iPad dreams come true as Fujitsu surrenders?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 29 March 2010 11:41

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Apple's uncanny ability to get its own way goes up another notch in the legendary stakes as it does an unknown deal with Fujitsu to assign the entire interest in the iPad name over to the Captains of Crunch!

Only days before the magical and revolutionary tablet that is Apple's iPad officially goes on sale in the US of A, Apple has yet again pulled off the ultimate coup: getting and owning the name it wants for its latest digital device.

Just as Apple wrenched control of the iPhone name from Cisco before the iPhone actually went on sale in 2007, so too has Apple done the same with Fujitsu.

While Apple's deal with Cisco talked vaguely about potential plans to work together, nothing much ever seems to have come out of that deal, so we can only hope that Fujitsu's lawyers were cannier than Apple's in extracting for Fujitsu a pretty penny or some other compensation.

That said, Apple's lawyers are clearly already very clever, so unless Fujitsu, Apple or 'people familiar with the matter' spill the beans on the deal that was done, we'll never truly know.

Those wondering what the patent trademark transfer looks like can take a look at this document over at the US Patent and Trademark Office, with a few tidbits of extra detail over at the Patent Authority website.

Looking over the document, we can see that the deal was done several days ago on March 17, in plenty of time for Apple's iPad to be, well, Apple's.

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