In the last 30 days, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a few new trademark filings from Apple covering DockKit, the figurative version of "Apple A17 Pro," and won their second design patent for AirPods Max  smart case that may already have been dropped. It was a terrible design to begin with, especially in the eyes of He/Him – type of guys. 

Force Touch 

Apple has updated their "Force Touch" trademark under application 97859615 to now include protection for Force Touch in context with a possible future feature of Magic Mouse ("computer mouse,") and more:

Class 009: "Computer hardware; computer peripherals; touchpads; trackpads; computer mouse in the nature of a trackpad; computer cursor control devices, namely, trackpads; computer mouse in the nature of a trackpad sold as a component feature of computers; computer cursor control devices, namely, trackpads sold as a component feature of computers

DockKit

Apple has filed for the trademark "DockKit" in Hong Kong under application 306404562 under International Class 009 covering "Computer hardware; computer peripheral devices; computer software; application development software; computer software for use as an application programming interface (API) for building software applications."

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Apple A17 Pro

Apple filed for the figurative trademark for Apple A17 Pro under application  98279107. Apple filed it under International Class 009 covering "computer hardware, namely, integrated circuits and computer chips, sold as a component of mobile electronic devices." Apple's "Specimen" provided to USPTO for this trademark is presented below.

AirPods Max Smart Case with Headphones 

Apple was granted Design Patent D1005669 for AirPods Max Smart Case under the titled "Case with Headphones." The case couldn't be found at the Apple Store, so it has likely been dropped.

It was a ridiculous design, one of the dumbest I've ever seen from Apple – though Chance Miller from 9to5Mac thinks that the iPhone 15 FineWoven case was a huge miss: "Apple’s new FineWoven cases for iPhone 15 are a huge swing and miss. They suck. Apple should remove them from sale and refund everyone who’s already bought one." Ouch. Don't hold back Chance (ha!).

Apple was also granted a design patent this week from USPTO for the AirPods Max smart case