Assuming, of course...
...that with their declining stock price, Apple is still around as a company when the appeal goes through...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's request to trademark the term "iPad mini" – but there's good reason to assume that Cupertino will overturn the decision on appeal. The central reason for the denial is rather straightforward: that "mini" is merely identifies the original iPad's little brother as being, well …
I was thinking that the filing was pointless anyway. It'd be as useless as making a filing for every variation they make such as having a different patent for "iPad 3, 32 GB, WiFi" and another for "iPad 3, 32 GB, 3G AT&T edition"
I suspect that this is more marketing than 'brand protection'
I would have assumed someone would have already pointed this out since this is wasting money and companies hate spending money, hell most companies are so serious about that that if they could, they'd go to strip clubs and throw naked women at money.
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