http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/08/apple.may.have.to.change.mouse.name/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/MM1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Years after having taken both Apple and CBS to court, Man & Machine has announced that it has at last been awarded registration of the "Mighty Mouse" trademark. The small accessory maker previously filed a 14-page complaint, claiming it had developed a desktop waterproof mouse under the same name over a year prior to the debut of Apple's product. The company also accused Apple of intentionally buy... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/08/apple.may.have.to.change.mouse.name/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/13/mbp.c.display.trademarks/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0810/applecinemadisplay24inch.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has won a collection of important design trademarks from the European Trademark and Design Office, divided between two major products. A full 30 belong to the unibody MacBook Pro, which uses a unique chassis built out of a single block of aluminum. Also covered is the notebook's multi-touch trackpad, which omits a visible button in favor of one situated beneath.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/13/mbp.c.display.trademarks/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/14/new.iphone.icons/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0904/iphone3dock.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has registered several new iPhone-related icons in Europe, which when taken together, may illustrate the company's plans for future hardware and software. The icons consist of a road, a flame, a target, a stopwatch and a blank circle; of these the most intelligible may be the first, which could be bound to some form of in-car navigation support. The iPhone 3.0 firmware is known to ready fo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/14/new.iphone.icons/ Thu, 14 May 2009 15:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/15/itunes.pass.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/depechemode.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Filing through the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has applied for a trademark on the concept of its iTunes Pass service. The option is a subset of the iTunes Store, allowing shoppers to pay for a complete musical collection -- usually from a particular band -- and download each piece as it becomes available. All tracks are iTunes Plus-quality, and can be accompanied by videos, exclusive s... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/15/itunes.pass.trademark/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/17/genius.trademark.bloats/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0903/genius.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has applied to extend the coverage of its Genius logo trademark, filings from the US Patent and Trademark Office show. The trademark was originally sought after in 2007, but only in reference to the Genius Bar found in Apple Stores and other related services. An updated trademark would also cover Genius playlists and sidebars, currently used for video and music in iTunes.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/17/genius.trademark.bloats/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/09/grand.central.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/snowleopard.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Working through the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has filed for a trademark on Grand Central, a technology expected to be used in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, due sometime next year. Not to be confused with Google's phone management system, the Apple technology is intended to aid developers in supporting multi-core processors, which can often be underexploited even in high-end software such as ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/09/grand.central.trademark/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/apple.opencl.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/nvidiateslat10p.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has filed for a trademark on OpenCL technology, documents from the US Patent and Trademark Office show. The standard is intended to better distribute processing power on a computer, by using the normally segregated processing on a video card to help with tasks unrelated to graphics. Video cards can be extremely powerful, Apple notes, but only tend to maximize their use in certain applicati... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/apple.opencl.trademark/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/05/apple.indie.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0811/starsofthelid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has filed for a trademark on one of the long-standing features of the iTunes Store, documents show. The "Indie Spotlight" section of the store has been around in various forms since 2006, and highlights favored artists whose labels have not been subsumed by a major one such as EMI, Universal or Sony BMG. Apple's selling of independent music reaches back to 2004 however, when it began carry... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/05/apple.indie.trademark/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/19/idisk.mac.trademarks/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/USPTO-1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has applied for two new additions to its trademark pool, filings show. The first is simply entitled iDisk, and covers the online file storage system first debuted through .Mac, and more recently continued with the advent of MobileMe. A successful trademark would be listed under International Class 042, and Apple cites its iDisk website as evidence of commercial use.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/19/idisk.mac.trademarks/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/apple.iphone.trademark/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/applelogo-black.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has formally filed to trademark the name "iPhone" with the US Patent and Trademark Office, documents show. Although the device has been on sale in the United States since last year, the company still does not technically own the trademark; this is likely due do a legal battle with Cisco, now resolved, over an existing VoIP phone which also bore the iPhone name. At present, the companies ar... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/apple.iphone.trademark/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT