Fujitsu Claims It Owns Rights to 'iPad' Name
01.28.10
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by Mark Hachman <http://www.pcmag.com/author_bio/0,1908,a=6920,00.asp>
Apple may have a fight on its hands for the iPad trademark, according to a
report.
*The New York Times*
reported<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/technology/companies/29name.html>Thursday
that Fujitsu
Ltd. <http://www.pcmag.com/topic/0,2944,t=Fujitsu%20Ltd&s=27996,00.asp>believes
it owns the rights to the iPad name, based on a real-time, portable
inventory-management device called the iPAD, that debuted in 2002, and
received an update in
2006<http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/ftxs_20060913.html>.
The Fujitsu version of the iPad is a point-of-sale device, running the PXA
270 processor with Microsoft Windows CE .NET 5.0, together with a 802.11 b/g
radio and Bluetooth v1.2, according to Fujitsu. Resellers like Current
Directions <http://www.currentdirections.com/hardware/fujitsu/ipad100.html>still
advertise the product.
Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu's public relations division, was quoted
by the *Times* as in the process of consulting with the company's lawyers.
One problem: the Fujitsu iPAD trademark stalled because of an earlier filing
by another company, Mag-Tech. Fujitsu let its application lapse, but revived
its application. Apple has asked for more time to fight the application, the
*Times* reported.
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