On April 30, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the iPhone's "Settings" icon under application 85020006. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for managing user system settings and preferences" according to the filing.

On April 30, 2010, The Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union published an Industrial Design Win for the Apple Remote under design number 001199368-0001. The design is protected until March 2015.

 
On April 30, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Stocks" icon under application 85020020. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for viewing financial data and related news and information" according to the filing.

 
On April 30, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark icon related to Apple's "Keynote" iApp under application 85019909. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for presentation graphics, namely, software for generating, storing, retrieving, manipulating and altering texts and graphics for use in presentations and utility programs for use therewith" according to the filing.

 
On April 30, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the iPhone's "Weather" icon under application 85020024. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for viewing weather information" according to the filing.

 
Apple has been working towards a 3D version of OS X for some time. In late 2008 we first learned about a "multi-dimensional" OS and later in December 2009 Apple revealed a 3D version of OS X using head-tracking technology. In today's patent, we get to see another angle that Apple is working on that somewhat relates to their 2008 patent and yet is unique. As the graphic above illustrates, Apple will employ advanced ambient light sensors on their hardware that could interact with surrounding light. In the graphic above, an in home lamp is reflecting on the laptop screen and casting shadows on elements on the display. This is yet more proof that Apple is on track for an advanced 3D OS sometime in the future as hardware adopts more cores. Intel had forecasted at CES this year that Sandy Bridge based systems would kick start 3D internet and advanced avatar creating software in 2011.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application relating to the "iBooks" icon under application 85019863. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in searching, browsing, reviewing, sampling, playing, purchasing, downloading, storing, and organizing electronic publications" according to the filing. Apple's iBooks iApp is a free application initially targeting the iPad and is available now on iTunes.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Voice Memos" icon under application 85019818. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for recording, editing, managing, and sharing audio content," according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Contacts" icon under application 85019809. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for contact information management" according to the filing.

 
On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "YouTube" icon under application 85020029. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in browsing, reviewing, searching, streaming, and playing pre-recorded video content," according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the icon related to Apple's "Pages" iApp under application 85019880. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for creating, editing and printing documents comprised of text and graphics and utility programs for use therewith" according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the icon related to Apple's "Numbers" iApp under application 85019894. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for creating spreadsheets, tables, graphs, and charts, and for organizing and analyzing data, for home, education, business, and developer use" according to the filing. Apple's "Numbers" application is available for the iPad on iTunes App Store today – in the United States.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Safari" icon under application 85019857. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Internet browser software," according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the icon related to Apple's free "MobileMe Gallery" iApp under application 85019853. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for viewing, organizing and sharing images," according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for Apple's iApp icon relating to "MobileMe iDisk" under application 85019838. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for remote management of user-provided data, text, images, video and audio over a global computer network and the internet" according to the filing.

On April 29, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application relating to the iPod touch version of the "Photos" icon under application 85019831. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for organizing, storing, sharing, and viewing images," according to the filing. For the iPhone's version of the Photos icon trademark filing, see our related report.

A new patent application from Apple has surfaced this morning that reveals some rather interesting concepts involving the use of both invisible and light-forming device controls. The good news is that it's not theory. The technology, in-part, is being utilized in Apple's new Magic Mouse. The no-button Mouse is what this patent is all about – and yet Apple takes us to the next level of where this could be going. We could eventually see this technology apply to future iPods, the Apple TV remote and perhaps more importantly, next generation MacBooks – where it really gets interesting.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Phone" icon under application 85019804. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Telephony software; Computer software for making, managing, and receiving phone calls, for reviewing, managing, and playing electronic voice messages" according to the filing.

On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Compass" icon under application 85019789. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use as a digital compass" according to the filing. To see the othe other half of Apple's Maps + Compass, see our Maps report.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Music" icon under application 85019762. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in reviewing, storing, organizing, and playing pre-recorded audio content" according to the filing.

On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Texas Hold'em" icon under application 85019773. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer game software" according to the filing.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for their iPhone 3 megapixel autofocus camera and photo application "Photos" icon under application 85018952. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for taking, recording, editing, sharing, and viewing images and video content," according to the filing.

On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Movies + TV Shows" icon under application 85019750. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in reviewing, storing, organizing, and playing pre-recorded video content" according to the filing.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Notes" icon under application 85019396. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for composing, reading, searching, sharing and syncing text files" according to the filing.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Mail" icon under application 85019374. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for composing, sending, searching, organizing, and reading electronic mail" according to the filing.

On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "iPod" icon under application 85019343. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in reviewing, storing, organizing, and playing pre-recorded audio and video content," according to the filing.

   
On April 28, 2010 the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Maps + Compass" icon under application 85018958. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use in searching, finding and viewing geographic locations and related contact information and for providing directions and traffic information," according to the filing. For the second half of Apple's Map + Compass, see our new Compass report.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "World Clocks" icon under application 85018957. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Computer software for use as a world clock, alarm clock, stopwatch and timer," according to the filing.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the "Messages" icon under application 85018959. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 covering "Text and multimedia messaging software," according to the filing.

 
On April 28, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the iPhone/iPod touch homepage "Calculator" icon under application 85018947. Apple has filed their trademark under the single International Class 009 that Apple describes as covering "Computer software for use as a standard and scientific calculator."

 
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twelve newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The two notables within this group includes one that relates to controlling the tempo of music on an iPod to motivate users while jogging or working out - while the other is a major multitouch gesturing patent that includes virtual keyboards and/or larger surface computers.

 
The US Patent & Trademark Office has published Apple's illustrative trademark application for the Magic Mouse under application 85008755. Apple has filed their trademark under International Class 009 which covers computer peripherals.

On April 22, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published an obscure patent of Apple's titled "Scheme for Authenticating without Password Exchange" which revealed a little something unexpected. Buried within the patent images of this patent we find a flowchart listing a touch screen that could be associated with both a Macbook and a small form factor desktop. This supports two of Apple's January patent applications regarding a touch screen iMac and MacBook.

 
The US Patent & Trademark Office has published Apple's latest trademark applications for "iBooks" and "iBookStore" under applications 85008412 and 85008432 respectively. Apple has filed both of their trademarks under the same six International Classes covering such things as computers, computer software, computer application software for mobile phones, portable media players; Printed matter; Advertising and marketing services; telecommunication services; Educational and entertainment services and lastly design and development of computer hardware and software.

 
The US Patent & Trademark Office has published an Apple packaging design trademark application relating to the iPad under application 85007501. Apple has oddly filed their trademark under International Class 009 which really doesn't cover packaging as does Class 016. 

 
The US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for "iTunes U" under application 85002469. Apple has filed their trademark under two International Classes which mainly covers their online retail store, educational and entertainment services.

 
Christina Warrens of Mashable covered our iTunes Concert Ticket + report last week and added that "Delta Airlines, which is headquartered in my hometown, supports digital boarding passes at some of its bigger airports. I love this because it is one less thing to print out and one fewer line to stand in for a boarding pass." Well, Apple appears to agree with that thinking because they're working on a new travel check-in application that they're simply calling "iTravel." Apple is obviously working with the Airlines to ensure that the iPhone will be up to standard when new ticketless systems roll out in the coming years. Apple's iTravel focuses on such matters as airline check-in and baggage identification, advanced electronic ID, car rentals, hotel and airline reservations and so forth. Apple's iTravel is yet another Near Field Communications based application within a host of recent revelations. It would appear, at least on the surface – that Apple may be working on a new suite of NFC related applications for a future iPhone. Perhaps such a suite could be ready by the time they roll out their iPhone 4G next year.

 
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 15 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. Besides winning 5 design patents covering the iPod Classic and iPod nano, the notables within this group include one that relates to the iPod being used as a remote control and another that relates to color correction information in a camera. The latter is perhaps the most interesting granted patent published today - due to the fact that Apple has just filed a patent infringement law suit against Kodak. Yet on a second note, Apple's aggressiveness against Kodak could also be a sign that Apple is planning yet a further push into cameras in the future that cover both digital still and video cameras. Apple's granted patent image noted above is not that of an iPod camera but rather a traditional stand alone camera which is in line with a patent application they filed in July 2009. While today's granted patent could have simply been covering a basic "conceptual camera" for illustration purposes only, one could never know what Apple has on their roadmap until they announce it. Stay tuned.

 
In February, Eastman Kodak Company filed a patent infringement complaint with the US International Trade Commission against Apple Inc. over digital camera technology used in the iPhone. It was revealed today in court documents that Apple Inc filed a counter suit against Eastman Kodak on April 15, 2010. The intellectual property patent suit was filed in the California Northern District Court. Apple claims that Kodak has infringed on two of their granted patents and lists the products under violation. Apple is seeking a trial by jury.

 
Intel's CEO Paul Otellini kicked off his January 2010 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a bang when he stated that we were "on the cusp of a new era in computing: An era of personal computing, essentially where we have many devices for every person - For computing is increasingly integrated into every aspect of our lives.  These changes are transforming the industry and they're transforming Intel." One of the key forces behind this change was Intel's acquisition of Wind River. Their footprint on Intel was felt throughout several of this spring's IDF keynotes and our report's first graphic, in fact, is titled Welcome to the Embedded World to make that point crystal clear. Yet the news that will be most interesting to Macites this day – is in how obsessed Intel is over Apple's iPhone. Intel wants to challenge Apple in the smartphone sector and in order to that they're aggressively creating a new developer platform to sideline Apple and the iPhone. You have to wonder if Intel once believed that by wooing Apple over to the Intel architecture that they'd eventually gain Apple's favor in creating future smartphones and netbooks based on Intel. The iPhone seems to grind on Intel and I don't know whether to laugh or be concerned. Time will tell.