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They trademarked "280".
by TobbenTM 15y ago
They trademarked "280".
- jws 15y agoThis is not true. They trademarked a very specific icon which happens to contain the digits 2, 8, and 0 in that order. (If you have an iOS device, it is your "Maps" icon.) They did not trademark "280".
- rubinelli 15y agoA bit of history: when AMD and Cyrix started gaining market share selling their x86 chips, Intel went to court to try to trademark "486" and failed, so the 586 became Pentium.
- lachenmayer 15y agoThere's a similar story that the Porsche 911 was originally going to be called 901, but that Peugeot had claimed all 3-digit numbers with a zero in the middle and forced Porsche to rename their model.
- tzs 15y agoIf the drug company that made the morning after birth control drug had not been able tom trademark RU-486, I wonder ifbtheymwould have called it Preventium?
- CoryMathews 15y agolink?
- xuki 15y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2011/07/06/apple-obtains-u-s-trademark-for-280-wait-what/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/06/apple-obtains-u-s-trademark...