Apple now owns TabletMac trademark

Seth Weintraub
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November 30, 2009
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We're filing this one in the "interesting but doesn't mean much" category.  Apple sometime last year trasferred the "TabletMac" trademark from Axitron who make those Modbooks out of MacBooks.  Keep in mind that Apple protects its trademarks pretty over-zealously.  For instance, it made the iPodRip developer change is name to iRip because apparantly Apple owns the "Pod" name.

 

By now, (for better or worse) we're pretty sure Apple's tablet will be based on the iPod OS software.  Therefore, TabletMac is only being protected to eliminate confusion over Apple's Mac brand.

 

Comments (8)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 8:19am

Keep in mind that Apple protects its trademarks pretty over-zealously.  For instance, it made the iPodRip developer change is name to iRip because apparantly Apple owns the "Pod" name.

This isn't "over-zealous" trademark protection.  It is elementary trademark protection.  Even the least practiced, most beginner IP lawyer should be able to tell you that.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 10:54am

I agree... that's a bold statement to be calling apple 'over-zealous' for trying to protect their trademarks

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 10:53am

I totally agree haha, read a book before you blog something like that

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 11:58am

Who has trademarked "iTab", "iPad", "iSlate", "MacTab","MacTablet", "MacPad", "MacSlate" BEFORE Apple?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 2:07pm

With all the hype it should be called iMACLET.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 6:40pm

If this is the future name, then we can expect at least one tablet model to run OSX and not just the iPhone/iTouch OS. I hope this is true!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 7:10pm

I think Apple should bring back the Newton name in the form of this new tablet. I know Newton was just a platform, but the name still sounds pretty good to me.

CB (not verified) | November 30, 2009 - 9:04pm

Not to be passive-aggressive, but do you think you could use a spellchecker? Found 4 misspellings in your last 3 articles.