http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/ Engadget Comments for Apple and Fujitsu inevitably caught up in iPad trademark dispute http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
hahaha]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Kinky...]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Old re: Josh, but thanks. On-topic, I believe apple made a huge mistake with the name of this device. There were countless, better alternatives. Even MadTV is joking about it as a MaxiPad (too easy, its right in the name).

Check out YouTube for the clip; I won't link to it here.]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.currentdirections.com/hardware/fujitsu/ipad100.html) has the VoIP phone capability.]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
How about naming it iFloppy? Like a floppy disk, you know...
And a Flop. iFlop would be too obvious.]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Because it seems entirely plausible that Apple would contest the trademark based solely on its similarity to the 'iPod' mark. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://bit.ly/aW5ckr]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
This stupid name is freakin' jinxed. You can have it back with my condolences.

Sincerely,
Steve "Newton 2" Jobs]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Change your tablet's name. Not that big of a deal.

Fujitsu.]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Newton, please. NEWTON!]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzhXMbOWHE&feature=player_embedded#at=37]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
+1 to you!

(Post upranked from IE)
]]>Jan 28th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
considering it looks like a oversized iPhone, you can see the maxiPad jokes coming a mile away (available to suit your "flow": light 16gb / medium 32gb / heavy 64gb).]]>Jan 28th 2010 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
That's how capitalism has worked in the US for hundreds of years... nothing new here. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/that's because of the Apple think different policy as everyone thought it was gonna be called the iTablet or iSlate]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 29th 2010 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Lost you at "iPad" in the headline.]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
its such a terrible product, theres no need for this much coverage.]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Running iphone OS, no flash support and no support for most common file types (video). Come on!]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
So.. Would you call them invalids?

(Ref: Michael Dell Vs Putin @ The rich bastards summit last year)]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/stop being an apple troll. you arent providing anything meaningful to these discussions and are just being plain scum.

as for the ipad trademark, this is typical apple to hide their product and fight for the name afterwards, i for one hope they dont get it and are forced to change it to something better and fess up to being arrogant about this. it should be fined as it almost seems they do this often with the intent to steal trade names, almost criminally ironic no?]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
"Running iphone OS, no flash support and no support for most common file types (video)."

None of those things will stop it selling in the millions, which is why it's getting so much coverage on Engadget.

Oh, and apparently Flash support doesn't matter. According to comments I've read on the iPad, HTML5 is going to save us all, as well as ridding the world of poverty, curing AIDS & cancer, and give us shiny hair!]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
LOL, I spit out all my coffee laughing at such a dense statement. I better get my wife's iPad to clean up this mess.]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Arrogant Apple is Arrogant, they think they are above the law and challenge trademarks and patents anyway and when they lose they throw money at it to make it go away.

I want someone to take a stand against Apple when they do this one too many times.]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
I seriously think they do this shit for fun...

They also do the same with patents.

Ok guys.. what obscure shit can we do today?
Steve: I know! lets see if we can patent using more than one finger on a display... that'll piss some people off!

Months Later:

Steve: *on phone* What... You're Kidding me!.. We got it?...HAHA
Steve: Guys, we got it! Quick, you boy, yes you, take this bag, crap in it, drive to googles HQ, and set it on fire at the door!


]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/I couldn't agree more.
Plus the iPad is like the biggest joke right now for a tablet, and half of it is BECAUSE of the name. They should have called it iSlate like the rumors did =/]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Cisco has the power to cut Apple computability with its VPN products and cut out support with Apple's old networking protocols but even they eventually let Apple take the name.

Can you imagine if Cisco had pulled an Apple on Apple the way Apple treated Palm? Their systems make up 86% of the internet.

"We're sorry we detected that your computer is using Safari on OSX and are not able to connect you with www.google.com."]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2drIylnDw]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/

Why would they let other companies tell them what they can't name their products?]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Lol!!it's clearly a fail. I'm wondering if this lawsuit has anythingvyo do with the $3.8 billion profit apple made in 3 months??
Of course name says ut all fujitsue.
Fuji just Ben over n take it. Stay out of Californian designed tablet. Were on a totally different continent. Agree?]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
You're very knowledgeable about bending over and taking up the rear aren't you? I guess you have a lot of experience.]]>Jan 28th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Got it?]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/Jan 28th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Actually, I'm guessing that Fujitsu will settle with Apple for a large sum of cash and walk away laughing their asses off knowing that they dodged a bullet with the piss poor iPad name.

After all the jokes about MaxiPad, Fujitsu would have to be insane to stick with the name.
]]>Jan 28th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apple-and-fujitsu-inevitably-caught-up-in-ipad-trademark-dispute/
Thats what happened with Ciscos iphone, but with Fujitsu I apple won't get out as cheap.

With Cisco it was pretty much no brainer when they sold the iphone name. The product was nearly dead anyway, and as the phones were going to wireless anyway there was no reason to keep the name. Just get maximum amount of cash from Apple.

With Fujitsu things are different. With the publicity apple got for ipad name the names value has increased for Fujitsu, and Fujitsu is going to stay as a computer maker. Wouldn't surprice me a bit if they released similar product soon. So the name has value to Fujitsu, and didn't for Cisco.

With name apple has painted themself into a corner. If they claim ipad is too close to ipod they might loose the ipod name too for Mag-Tek. And Fujitsu has used the name before in their product so they have precedence.

Whats even worse is that this is only for US market. I'm willing to bet that Fujitsu has registered the name for other markets, and MagTek hasn't. I'd guess Japan and bigger european countries like Germany, England and France at least.

So even if Apple got their will through in US in many other markets the name ipad would be illegal. So apple will have to do a lot of sweettalking and brown nosing to Fujitsu to get the name. Worse case scenario for apple is that dispute drags on for several years which is quite possible.

So this is a win-win for Fujitsu. They have pretty good claim for the name, and probably registered it in other markets. If they can register the name for them it's good for them. If apple tries to blog it Fujitsu can contest the blog giving some FUD to apple which directly competes with Fujitsu products.

I'd say apple will lose tens of millions or more, and Fujitsu will get equal rights to the name. This short names arent cheap.]]>Jan 28th 2010 4:14PM