“On February 24, 2011, The European Trademarks and Designs Office published Apple’s latest trademark application for the word ‘Places’ under application 009760141,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Apple has filed their trademark under four distinct International Classes covering all manner of computer hardware, education and entertainment services and more,” Purcher reports. “Yet at the heart of this application, Places is primarily about online social networking services related to a social networking site and will assist in locating people using GPS on Apple’s mobile devices.”
Purcher reports, “Apple asserts a claim of priority based on Jamaican application number 56357, filed on August 23, 2010. Today’s European filing was made in London England by Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge UK LLP.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Lookout- Apple’s spearheading another big one.
So tired of facebook. I hope Apple takes them down a peg or four.
Rats! When I saw the word “Places”, I thought about Apple’s purchase of that mapping service company they bought. I thoughtbto myself, good-bye Google maps, and with Apple’s one year hold (or whatever) of The Beatles musi library in iTunes, what a way to tie a new maps service called “Places” with the song “In My Life”… “There are places I remember, all my life though some have changed. Some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments…”… But then the article talked about Social Media, Dacebook stuff… Oh well…
Maps may be part of it
I don’t see a problem with xylophone players or xoom.
Good one Persian King, for the other topic… 🙂
You are kind….
Apple seems to be going for rather generic trademarks.
Why don’t they save themselves some time, and just trademark “Things”? That would cover it all. 🙂
Now they are trying to trademark Places? What’s next, People and Things?
Windows?
Wait, that’s been done…
Serves facebook right for blocking Ping.
Online gaming… finding your friends to play against? Hmm
I’m trademarking ‘that’ which in my application refers to anything I choose. On a serious note I suspect that having chosen the itunes name has a lot to do with this more generic term, itunes was very clear and logical to start with but now slightly out of touch with reality but can’t easily be changed because of its familiarity and marketing clout.
The link isn’t working MDN.
Here it is here
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/02/apple-reveals-places-a-social-networking-related-trademark.html