Apple filed for a key trademark relating to Apple TV+ last week in Hong Kong while winning three U.S. design patents covering two Apple accessories and an iPad relating graphical user interface element.
Apple files for Trademark: ‘An Apple Original’
Apple has filed for the trademark ‘An Apple Original’ associated with Apple TV+ in Hong Kong last week. The basic information is presented in the Hong Kong form below.
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Apple filed their trademark under International Classes 009 and 041.
For International Class 041 Apple listed the following coverage: “Educational services; providing training, mentoring, internship, apprenticeship, and career counseling programs in the fields of advertising, marketing, communications, and design; arranging, organizing, conducting, and presenting seminars, workshops, classes, webinars, conferences, online instruction, and distance learning programs; arranging, organizing, conducting, and presenting concerts, live performances, entertainment special events, arts and cultural events, theatrical entertainment, competitions, contests, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, expositions, and sporting events; development, production, distribution, and presentation of radio programs, television programs, motion pictures, multimedia entertainment content, and sound recordings; providing ongoing television, radio, audio, video, podcast, and webcast programs; providing entertainment, sports, music, informational, news, and current events programming by means of telecommunications networks, computer networks, the Internet, satellite, radio, wireless communications networks, television, and cable television; providing non-downloadable entertainment, sports, animation, music, informational, news, reality, and current events programming; providing websites and computer applications featuring entertainment, sports, music, informational, news, current events, and arts and culture programming; providing websites and computer applications featuring information in the field of entertainment, music, sports, news, and arts and culture; entertainment information; providing non-downloadable computer games, electronic games, interactive games, and video games; providing information, schedules, reviews and personalized recommendations of educational programs, entertainment, motion pictures, theatre, arts and cultural events, concerts, live performances, competitions, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, expositions, and sporting events; ticket reservation and booking services for educational programs, entertainment, motion pictures, theatre, arts and cultural events, concerts, live performances, competitions, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, expositions, and sporting events; publication and presentation of reviews, surveys, and ratings, and providing interactive websites and computer applications for the posting and sharing of reviews, survey, and ratings relating to educational programs, entertainment, motion pictures, theatre, arts and cultural events, concerts, live performances, competitions, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, expositions, and sporting events; providing non-downloadable ringtones, pre-recorded music, video, and graphics for use on mobile communications devices; providing a website for the uploading, storing, sharing, viewing and posting of images, audio, videos, online journals, blogs, podcasts, and multimedia content; publication of books, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, manuals, blogs, journals, and other publications; providing websites and computer applications featuring books, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, manuals, blogs, journals, and other publications; news reporting; electronic and online library services; providing non-downloadable computer software for use in connection with fitness and exercise; providing websites and computer applications featuring information in the field of fitness and exercise; digital imaging services; creation of visual effects and graphics for others.
For International Class 009, Apple listed all conceivable hardware that ‘An Apple Original’ series or film could be found on including: “Computers, iPhone, iPad, smartglasses, Apple Watch, televisions, set top boxes, 3D spectacles, mixed reality headsets and more.
Design Patent Wins
Apple was granted three key design patents last week covering the AirPods Pro case, Apple’s third Magic Keyboard (to cover the Touch ID key not shown below) and the GUI representing the iPad’s ‘Opacity’ slider.
