Apple has been granted a design patent for their Vision Pro Strap with Battery Connector while filing two Trademarks in the U.S. & Hong Kong
This week Apple was granted a design patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the Vision Pro’s strap and battery connector. Apple also filed for two trademarks, with one filed in the U.S. and the other in Hong Kong.
Design Patent: Vision Pro strap with Battery Connector
Unlike "patent applications" that provide the public with an abstract, summary and details of an invention, design patents published around the world are limited to only providing the public with design patent figures, such as those presented below. No additional specifics of the design are made available.
The first of two new trademarks covers “PKL” which is a configuration-as-code language designed for defining and validating configuration data with rich tooling. It allows developers to create structured configurations that can be converted into formats like JSON, YAML, and Property Lists. PKL is scalable, safe, and integrates with various programming languages, including Java, Kotlin, Swift, and Go.
Apple has made PKL open-source and it provides IDE support for tools like IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, and Neovim. The language helps catch configuration errors before deployment, ensuring reliability in software development.
You can explore more about PKL on its official documentation or its GitHub repository. Let me know if you’d like a deeper dive into its features!. The trademark is only for the Text, not the logo presented above.
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Final Cut Camera
Apple has filed for the “Final Cut Camera” (text only) in Hong Kong under application 306896675. Apple filed their trademark under International Class 009 Covering;
”Computer graphics software; computer software for use in video and motion picture production; computer software for creating, playing, organizing, editing, and scrubbing audio, video and multimedia data; computer software for taking, recording, editing, sharing, and viewing photos, images and video content; computer software for creating, editing, processing, organizing, importing, exporting, and encoding video, movies, motion picture films, and multimedia content; computer software for creating, editing, processing, organizing, importing, exporting, and encoding audio, music, and sound content; computer software for creating and editing digital animation, graphics, and special effects; computer software for color correction of video and multimedia content; computer software for creating, processing, exporting, and encoding digital media; computer software for creating, viewing, and editing videotape recordings and motion picture films and user manuals sold therewith; computer software for taking, recording, editing, sharing, and viewing images and video content sold as a feature of phones, digital audio and video players, handheld computers, and tablet computers.”
It should be noted that international trademark classes that Apple files their trademarks under are important as the trademark registration will only protect those classes that have been identified in their original application. In a legal battle, the classes filed for originally could make or break a legal case.