On August 12, 2015, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest registered trademark for their Game Center icon under registration number 4,791,133 which was originally granted yesterday. We covered Apple's original filing back in July 2013. For those unfamiliar with Game Center, it's Apple's online multiplayer social gaming network. It allows users to invite friends to play a game, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking, track their achievements and compare their high scores on a leader board. Game Center was originally announced on April 8, 2010 and made public with the release of the iPhone 4 in September of that year.

Apple's Registered TM Certificate for Game Center Icon

Apple filed Game Center under International Class 009 with the following specific verbiage: "Computer software for use in accessing multi-player games and for use in scoring and tracking game performance; computer software to facilitate communications among users via the internet and other computer and electronic communication networks; computer software for use in social networking; computer application software for mobile phones and handheld digital devices, namely, for accessing multi-player games and for use in scoring and tracking game performance."

Apple's Game Center Icon underwent a change back in 2013 as noted below.

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