Apple wins trademark registrations for Shuffle Symbol and ‘Apple’
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 6, 2006 at 1:52pm
On March 11, Macsimum news reported that Apple’s Shuffle symbol trademark had cleared a Trademark Office hurdle. It’s now been revealed that on March 14, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple that trademark under registration number 3,067, 950.
Shuffle trademark symbol coverage
The trademark applies to: Portable and handheld digital electronic devices and parts therefore sold together as a unit. For recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating and reviewing data and audio files: Computer software for use in organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and viewing data and audio files on portable and handheld electronic devices in Class 9 (U.S. CLS. 21, 23, 26, 36 and 38).
Trademark ‘Apple’
On Jan. 3, the U.S. Trademark Office granted Apple Registration number 3,038,073 for “Apple” under International Class 40. Say what? Relax; it’s just adding a classification that covers their entry into all manner of photographic software like Aperture, iPhoto, iMovie and related services such as purchasing a hard or soft cover photo books. You could also expect Apple to make further strides into this area in the future, now that the trademark has been registered.
Trademark coverage
Treatment of materials, namely developing of photographic film: Electronic recording of photographic images; enlarging of photographic prints; photographic film developing; photographic film printing; photographic image processing; photographic printing; photographic reproduction; transfer of photographs on to compact disc or video tape; on-line processing, developing and delivery of digital images; on-line printing of digital images onto photographic paper, photographic books or merchandise; Advisory and consultancy services relating to all the foresaid, in Class 40 (U.S. CLS. 100, 103 and 106).
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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