Ever Wonder Just What Trademarks Apple Owns?

It was a slow weekend, so we took an exciting trip into the world of Apple's legal pages, and we found one (well, just one for today) interesting nugget.

If you ever wanted to know precisely what trademarks Apple has claimed, well here you go.

Sure the list includes the usual suspects: iLife, Airport, Apple TV, etc. but it also includes some interesting names that either haven't come to fruition, or are still being created. For example, AppleFund, listed as a "reimbursement program." OR AirMac, once a candidate for the MacBook Air. We also see some blasts from the past like Apple IIGS, AppleVision, and LaserWriter.

Click here for a look at the past (and perhaps future) of Apple product names...

Comments

[parr]

AppleFund™ is a marketing fund program for independent Apple authorized dealers to help pay dealers for their promotion and advertising efforts of Apple branded products. AppleFund has been around since the late 70's, However I would assume that the program will be discontinued within several years, because the number of Apple authorized dealers is shrinking. Once all the independent stores disappear, the only retail outlets that will be left will be the Apple owned company stores.

[ryanrit]

Parr, thanks for the clarification. Sadly, you are probably correct on the fate of independent stores...

[Debt-Free Dan]

AirMac is the name of AirPort in Japan.

[Debt-Free Dan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirMac

[Fred Smith]

Apple Inc has actually 408 trademarks being owned by them currently. Of these SANE used for Computer Programs and A/UX used again for computer programs have expired and can be bought, all anyone needs to do is conduct a search via the USPTO but the formulae used for those searches are pretty complex so trademarkia has a free search going;