Does Jam Box equal Asteroid?
p2pnet.net News:- Mac + Intel = Mactel
That combination must have crossed the minds of just about everyone who was aware of Apple`s decision to divorce IBM, its partner of many years, and take up with Intel. And the offspring of this union might be called Mactel.
Or not.
Anyway, Ina Fried at CNET News` Apple Blog points out the company filed a trademark application for the term/word/trademark/whatever and while she was checking it out, she came across another term/word/trademark/whatever, namely ‘Jam Box’.
Might that equal Asteroid, she wonders?
You’ll recall Asteroid got AppleInsaider into trouble when it posted, “Apple is reportedly building the device [a breakout box] around GarageBand, its popular application for aspiring musicians. According to sources, Asteroid will include two XLR/ TRS audio input connectors, two RCA analog output jacks, and a standard headphone jack. The device will draw power through a single FireWire 400 port and include a phantom on/off power switch.
In addition to the aforementioned specs, a more advanced version of the Asteroid device – recently seen floating around the Apple’s Cupertino campus – sports an additional S/PDIF optical output port; however, it is unclear which version the company will ultimately send to manufacturing.
With that in mind, In April, the company applied for protection for the term ‘Jam Box’,” Fried writes, going on:
“The trademark would cover computer peripherals, `namely audio production systems comprised of computer hardware and software for composing, recording, creating, converting, enhancing, processing, amplifying, mixing, manipulating, and playing audio signals’.”
Other recently applied for trademarks include `iPod Socks` and `Voiceover,’ she says.
And to round things off, Just two days after requesting a trademark on the word ‘Mactel,’ which seemingly describes the convergence of Macintosh design with Intel hardware, Apple on June 8th filed for a standard character mark on the word ‘Numbers’,” says AppleInsider.
Described only vaguely by the filing as `computer software,` Numbers may pertain to Apple’s recently released graphing calculator application. However, the company in recent months has filed for other marks that more accurately describe that application, such as `Graphulator` and `Grapher` – that latter of which is used in the shipping version.
Instead, Numbers appears to conform nicely to the naming scheme used by Apple to describe the components of its relatively new iWork productivity suite. Consisting of only two applications, the iWork bundle includes presentation software called ‘Keynote’ and a word processor dubbed ‘Pages`.
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See:-
Apple Blog – Apple seeks to trademark its socks, June 14, 2005
Asteroid – Apple holds off in Asteroid case, p2pnet, February 18, 2005
AppleInsider – Apple spreadsheet application in the works, June 16, 2005
