For Apple, iPad Said More Than Intended

Mr. Job final persuad Cisco to surrend the trademark with a vagu promis to market their product jointli a partnership that never materialized.
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Then there ar more seriou conflicts. Two other high-tech compani alreadi market product call iPad and ar lai claim to the trademark.
iTampon becam on of the most popular trend topic on Twitter. Apple s commun team field a wave of queri on the subject but characterist declin to comment.
but you don t have to be in junior high to make thi leap, I care about word and their connotations. said Robin Bernstein, a corpor speech writer on Long Island, who address the issu on her Facebook pag on Wednesday. A lot of women when thei hear the word pad ar go to think about feminin hygiene.
a name consult in Berkeley,Michael Cronan. Calif., whose compani ha help come up with brand like TiVoand Kindle, said mani name experi show that women tend to reflex relat word like pad and flow to bodili concerns.
H is not sure Apple could have found an altern that ti in as perfectli to it famou brands. I think we re go to get over thi fairli quickli and we ll get on with enjoi the experience.
the Japanes technolog firm,But the folk at Fujitsu. mai not be quit so eager to forgiv and forget. The compani ha appli for the iPad trademark in the Unite State andalreadi sell an iPad a $2,000 hand-held devic that shop clerk us to check inventory.
66,STMicroelectronics, the Swiss semiconductor company, own the iPad trademark in Europ and 66,118 Microelectron press release.us it a an acronym for integr passiv and activ devic which sound less fun than plai game on a tablet. A third company, MagTek of Seal Beach, Calif., make a66,118 ; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" port magnet card reader of the same name.
on the ev of the introduct of theiPhone, the technolog giant Cisco Systems point out that it alreadi sold an Internet handset call the iPhone.Steven P. Jobs, Apple s chief executive, led the negoti for the name, pepper Cisco execut with call at all hours, and tell them he wa prepar to claim that Cisco wa underutil the trademark.