June 14th, 2005
Apple Files for Trademark. Chooses “Mactel”
Noooooooooooooooo. It’s worse than cloning. It’s Mactel.
“A CNet article notes that Apple applied for a trademark for the term “Mactel” through the US Trademark and Patent Office. The Mactel trademark is described as follows:
“computers, computer hardware, computer peripherals, computer software, integrated circuits, circuit boards, microprocessors, semiconductors”
“Whether or not Apple is planning on using this term or is simply protecting it from future generic use is unknown. A recent poll revealed that users were generally split on what term to use to describe (in conversation) the upcoming Intel Based Macs.” Source: Mac Rumors via CNET
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Scarier than Cloning; Apple Files for “Mactel” Trademark
Noooooooooooooooo. It’s worse than cloning. It’s Mactel. “A CNet article notes that Apple applied for a trademark for the term “Mactel” through the US Trademark and Patent Office. The Mactel trademark is described as follows: “Computers, computer hard…
June 14th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Jason says:
“Mactel” is too stupid a name for Steve Jobs to actually use. It HAS to be that Apple is just tagging that name to keep it out of circulation.
June 15th, 2005 at 8:45 am
sven says:
well, as we all know the term ‘wintel’ wasn’t actually used by microsoft of intel itself but was brought into life by hardware reviewers and alike for describing the close relationship of these two companies. Of course this wasn’t used in any ‘nice’ comments about any of those two companies. so, my opninion is that Steve Jobs just want to make sure nothing comparable will happen to apple and it’s move to intel processors, which would abviously give ‘mactel’…
June 15th, 2005 at 10:51 am
Alice says:
I agree. Probably parking the name in case someone tries to launch a “Mactel” box or something.
June 15th, 2005 at 11:01 am
Peter says:
If they also registered stuff like “Intple,” “Apptel,” “PentiMac,” etc. then I agree it’s preemtive trademark parking. But I suspect it’s just an attempt to get an excuse to sue pundits for even daring to call the new Macs “Mactel.” Remember: Trademarks have to be actively defended to stay effective!
June 15th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Mike says:
They probably only want to trademark the name for new hardware requred in the new intel-baseed systems. The probably want to keep their hardware market, and even though they will be using INTEL CPU’s, so that people will still need to buy “MAC-Spesiphic” hardware, and not be able to install Mac on regular PC’s.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:43 am
Shad says:
Who knows.. maybe its related to the Apple / Nokia / Nextel arrangement with the phones that will be running stripped down apple firmware. Think of the implications of Apple/Mac Telecom… with prepaid or traditional phones that you can download iTunes to…
June 19th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Will says:
Of course this wasn’t used in any ‘nice’ comments about any of those two companies.
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