RT @TechCrunch: USPTO Denies Apple's iPad Mini Trademark Application, Deemed "Merely Descriptive" http://t.co/OzScPMlsvk by @fredericl
March 30, 2013
Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, the USPTO has now refused Apple's trademark filing because, the reviewer argues, "the applied-for mark merely describes a feature or characteristic of applicant's goods."