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Apple applies for App Store icon patent
updated 10:20 pm EDT, Mon March 31, 2008
App Store icon patent
The US Patent and Trademark Office today published Apple's trademark application concerning the icon for the upcoming iPhone/iPod touch application store. The logo, which is displayed in almost every piece of documentation related to the developer's program, will be present on all iPhone and iPod touch devices when the service officially launches later this year. The design resembles Apple's traditional application icon – the stylized letter "A" constructed from a paintbrush, pencil and ruler.
looks like...
03/31, 10:38pm reply
Looks remarkably like the old Appleworks logo. And I just dated myself, didn't I?
macbuddha06
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@macbuddha06
03/31, 10:42pm reply
Don't worry, I thought the same thing!
doolz
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Please Fix Headline
03/31, 11:01pm reply
The headline 'Apple applies for App Store icon patent' is incorrect. That's not for a patent, it's a graphical representation, so it's a trademark. The body of the story has it correct.
leesmith2
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re: logo
03/31, 11:54pm reply
That's an unattractive logo. I'm surprised at Apple - well, maybe not, given the ugly folders in Leopard. Apple's product design team is first class, but their graphic design team has been pretty bad lately.
elroth
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A trademark is NOT a pate
04/01, 10:00am reply
geez - how hard is it to get the details straight?
Sebastien
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design patent
04/01, 12:06pm reply
Actually, in the USA you can have design patents - but I think in this case it is a trademark application. Seems doomed to failure given that it's just a black and white representation of Apple's existing application icon.
Clive
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Joined: Jan 2001
Wait
04/01, 01:48pm reply
It's not the anarchy symbol? Just kidding :)
Feynman
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