Crackerjack reporting by MacRumors. They have uncovered evidence that suggests the much rumored forthcoming Apple tablet will be called “iSlate.” MacRumors found that Apple had bought the iSlate.com domain in late 2006/2007 and that they bought the iSlate trademark through a dummy corporation (Slate Computing, LLC) sometime thereafter. Apparently Apple has been known to buy trademarks and domains through dummy corporations in the past, seeing as how they bought the “iPhone” trademark through a fake company called Ocean Telecom Services.
In delving deeper, however, we have discovered evidence that Apple is indeed behind Slate Computing, LLC and the iSlate trademark. The trademark application documents for the iSlate reveal the signatory being one Regina Porter:
Regina Porter is the Senior Trademark Specialist at Apple.
In addition to iSlate, MacRumors has found evidence suggesting that Apple(through Slate Computing, LLC) also scooped up the trademark for “Magic Slate.” The name was registered to cover broad terms such as computer peripherals, computer hardware, and so on. Here’s what MacRumors had to say about this:
“Magic Slate” adopts a similar naming convention to the recently released multi-touch Magic Mouse from Apple. It’s not hard to imagine that a “Magic Slate” would be a multi-touch peripheral for computers, much like the multi-touch iGesture Pad released by Fingerworks before their acquisition by Apple.
A similar multi-touch trackpad device was rumored in October. It is not known if Apple still plans to introduce this device or not.
I’m like John Gruber however. These filings are old, Jobs more than likely has changed names for the device by now. Maybe not, but it seems unlikely that Apple would keep the same name for an unreleased product for three years. Additionally, Apple probably scoops up every “i” name they can get a hold of.
This will be exciting to watch unfold nonetheless.
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