royleban | Shared With: Everyone - May 13 2008 | design, news, apple, trademarks, patents
Quoted: On Jan. 8, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple Inc. a trademark for the three-dimensional shape of its iPod media player.
This was more than a recognition of an innovative product design. It also was Apple's capping piece in a multiyear marketing and legal campaign that pushed intellectual-property rights to new competitive advantage for the company.
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The carnage continues. I do think it's a good time to start looking for smart buys (e.g. market cap near book value).
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My patent (assigned to Microsoft) on using GPS data to augment a web browser request. This patent took 6 years(!) to issue (filed in 1998 and issued in 2004).
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