Apple Denied Trademark For Multi-Touch By Patent Office
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple’s appeal to register a trademark for the term Multi-touch and Apple originally applied for the trademark on January 9th, 2007, the same day the iPhone was introduced. That application was denied by a lawyer for the USPTO and Apple then appealed to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The appeal was dismissed as the trademark attorney thinks the term multitouch is pretty much generic by now and it was concluded that the term does not only identify the technology underneath, but rather describes a method of usage of a device………………