Apple files trademark for Rosetta: it’s Apple’s technology
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 8, 2005 at 10:15am
On Nov. 1, 2005, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed that Apple has filed a Trademark/Service Mark for ROSETTA, under application 78744573. Apple appointed Thomas R. La Perle to submit the application on behalf of Apple Computer, Inc.
The Application’s only international class listed was 009, covering the following:
Computer software, computer code, computer firmware and application tools for testing, converting, programming and executing computer software, computer code and computer applications across software, computer and microprocessor platforms; software technology used for cross-platform computing, software code verification, testing and conversion.
Other information listed
Foreign Application Number 300419571; Foreign Application Country: Hong Kong (HKX); Foreign Filling Date: May 13, 2005.
Rosetta: Apple technology
C/NET reported in June that Transitive was providing the engine used in Apple’s Rosetta software, which translates software for its current machines using PowerPC processors so it can run on forthcoming Intel-based Macintoshes. “We’ve had a long-term relationship with them,” Transitive Chief Executive Bob Wiederhold said Tuesday. As a program runs, Rosetta translates its PowerPC instructions into corresponding x86 instructions.
In that same report, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller declined to say how much of Rosetta was developed in-house. “I’m not going to talk about details, but it’s Apple technology,” Schiller said.
Apple’s filing for the ROSETTA Trademark/Service Mark on November 1 – now makes that very clear: It is Apple technology.
Related to Rosetta
Apple’s PDF on Rosetta: Universal Binary Programming Guidelines. Apple’s Developer Connection web page about Rosetta
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