Apple's "iPad" is now a Registered Trademark in Canada

Apple's Four Year Battle for iPad Trademark in Canada

In late 2012 Apple settled their iPad trademark dispute with Proview Technology for $60 million. In the Canadian case, it was a matter of opposition to the trademark rather than it being a legal claim of ownership. After exhausting every opposition proposal opportunity at their disposal, the opposition's arguments didn't stand with Canada's IP Office and Apple was granted their trademark as noted in the graphic below.

According to Canadian IP Office documentation, the trademark was filed under Wares in two categories specifically covering "Computers" and " Electronic hand-held game units."

Wares - Computers: computer hardware; hand-held computers; hand-held mobile digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, image, audio, and audiovisual files, for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, electronic mail, and other digital data for use as a digital format audio player, hand-held computer, personal digital assistant, electronic organizer, electronic notepad, camera, and global positioning system (GPS) electronic navigation device; digital audio and video recorders and players; personal digital assistants; electronic organizers; cameras; satellite navigational systems, namely, global positioning systems (GPS); electronic navigational devices, namely, global positioning satellite (GPS) based navigation receivers; computer game machines for use with external display screens, monitors, and televisions; accessories and parts for the aforementioned goods namely, computer network adapters, computer power supplies, computer headphones; stands, covers, cases, holsters, and power adaptors for the aforementioned goods; computer monitors; flat panel display monitors; computer keyboards; computer cables; electronic docking stations; batteries namely, electric batteries, namely, handheld mobile digital electronic device batteries; battery chargers namely, cellular phone battery chargers, camera battery chargers, and handheld mobile digital electronic device battery chargers; electrical connectors, wires, cables, and adaptors; mobile digital electronic devices for hands free use for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, electronic mail and other digital data, for use as a digital format audio player and for use as a handheld computer, voice recorder, video recorder, personal digital assistants, electronic organizer, electronic notepad, camera, computer gaming machine, videophone, digital compass, and portable electronic (GPS) global positioning systems instrument for determining and outputting position and speed; headphones; earphones; ear buds; audio speakers; microphones; and headsets; software for the processing of digital data, namely personal information, text messages, electronic mail, audio files, video files, multimedia files, music files, calendar and contact data, spreadsheets, graphics, still images, moving pictures, books, publications, journals and presentations comprising text, graphics and video content, file management, data storage, data recovery, and database management, software for communication and telecommunication of digital data namely personal information, text messages, electronic mail, audio files, video files, multimedia files, music files, computer software, calendar and contact data, spreadsheets, graphics, still images, moving pictures, books, publications, journals and presentations comprising text, graphics and video content via local and global communications and computer networks, software for creating and delivering messages, and electronic mail, software for downloading, storing, sharing, enhancing, distributing, editing, manipulating, and printing of images, software for access to communications and computer networks, software for personal information management, character recognition software, electronic mail and messaging software, software for accessing, browsing and searching online databases, software for searching, retrieving, organizing, summarizing, transferring, manipulating and disseminating a wide range of information, software for use to navigate a global computer information network, web browser software, search engine software, software for use in font justification and font quality, software for word processing incorporating text, spreadsheets, still and moving images, sounds and clip art, software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing audio, video, still images and other digital data, namely, personal information, text messages, electronic mail, audio files, video files, multimedia files, music files, computer software, calendar and contact information, spreadsheets, graphics, still images, moving pictures, books, publications, journals and presentations comprising text, graphics and video content, computer game software, dictionary and translation software, software for remote viewing and remote control of digital data, namely personal information, text messages, electronic mail, audio files, video files, multimedia files, music files, computer software, calendar and contact data, spreadsheets, graphics, still images, moving pictures, books, publications, journals and presentations comprising text, graphics and video content, communications and software distribution within personal computer systems and across computer network.

Wares - Electronic hand-held game units: musical toys, games and playthings namely, computer game consoles; electric computer games, other than those adapted for use with television receivers.

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