US Patent & Trademark Office Refuse to Register Apple's "Touch ID" Trademark

[Dietrichw]

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Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published an official letter that was sent to Apple regarding their trademark application for "Touch ID" having been refused by their trademark examiner. Noteworthy is the fact that the letter was originally sent to Apple on May 7 and only made public today. That's over a two month delay. The case against Apple's Touch ID being registered seems to be solid and valid. Apple officially has six months to reply to USPTO with a work-around remedy or risk automatic trademark abandonment. With Apple likely to add their Touch ID feature to new iPads this fall, it'll be interesting to see how Apple reacts to this latest news.

 

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has refused to register Apple's "Touch ID" trademark based on there being a likelihood of confusion with the mark in U.S. Registration No. 2735480

 

I Looked into the Kronos Touch ID and this is it 

And it doesn't look like it is in production anymore. 

 

 

I doubt there will be confusion as most people have never heard of Kronos Touch ID unless you are a business owner from over a decade ago that used one of these payroll tracking systems that Kronos makes. 

[Victorious Secret]

Kronos Touch ID. I remember that piece of shit shift tracking system. Actually, piece of shit was an understatement. 

 

Irony being the one time Apple makes something well integrated (and decently useful to boot) and they can't protect it. 

[Damikiller37]

Kronos Touch ID. I remember that piece of shit shift tracking system. Actually, piece of shit was an understatement. 

 

Irony being the one time Apple makes something well integrated (and decently useful to boot) and they can't protect it. 

Should have named it properly then so that they could avoid this in the first place. Looks like the person/team that named the feature didn't do enough research beforehand.

[AlexGoesHigh]

i don't care they failed the trademark because of an old product that may not be in production anymore, but because trademarking this is retarded, yeah sure apple may want to avoid copycats and whatnot but filling a trademark is kinda overkill when they are lots of product or features of a product that doesn't have a trademark in order to stand out

[StingBull]

Trademarking "Touch ID" or pretty much anything at all is pointless at best and a blow to progress at worst. And we know from Apple's track record what they will do with this trademark. They'll probably sue small businesses and schools that have the word "ID" or "Touch" in their name.

[NIC ROBERTOOO]

Good, one less thing apple can 'patent'

[Snickerzz]

Oh but you can patent the fucking word "candy" ._._...____._.