{"id":745516,"date":"2013-04-08T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=423276"},"modified":"2013-04-08T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:07:22","slug":"apple-ipad-mini-trademark-application-back-on-track-after-uspto-withdraws-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745516","title":{"rendered":"Apple \u2018iPad mini\u2019 trademark application back on track after USPTO withdraws objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/08\/apple-ipad-mini-trademark-application-423276\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/ipad-mini-verizon-1.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple iPad Mini\" title=\"iPad mini\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple's (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) quest to trademark the term \"<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ipad-mini\">iPad mini<\/a>\" is now back on track now that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has withdrawn its main objections to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/07\/02\/apple-proview-ipad-trademark-settlement\/\">trademarking the name<\/a> of the company's smaller tablet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2013\/04\/08\/u-s-patent-office-withdraws-primary-objections-to-apples-ipad-mini-trademark-application\/\"><em>MacRumors<\/em> reports<\/a> that the USPTO withdrew its \"primary objection to Apple's application related to all of the elements of the 'iPad mini' name having been judged as descriptive rather than contributing to a unique product name.\" <em>MacRumors<\/em> notes that the USPTO's original objections were fairly easy to overturn since the company merely needed \"to show that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/14\/ipad-mini-cannibalization-survey\/\">the 'iPad mini' term was an extension of its already distinctive 'iPad' trademark<\/a> and submit a new specimen satisfying the examiner's objection.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/VgJ2jtCqy0w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) quest to trademark the term &#8220;iPad mini&#8221; is now back on track now that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has withdrawn its main objections to trademarking the name of the company&#8217;s smaller tablet. MacRumors reports that the USPTO withdrew its &#8220;primary objection to Apple&#8217;s application related to all of the elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37Ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}