Apple Wins Trade Dress Protection
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Apple’s request for trademark/trade dress protection for the design and layout of its retail stores, according to Reuters. The description of the protection (granted on January 22) includes an “oblong table with stools…set below video screens flush mounted on the back wall” and “a clear glass storefront surrounded by a paneled façade.”
In order to win this protection, Apple had to show that consumers can misperceive an infringing store design for an Apple store. USPTO trademark protection does not extend beyond the U.S. In order to protect its design in other countries, Apple will have to acquire legal safeguards separately in each country. Apple has had particular difficulties in China where there have been instances of counterfeit Apple stores, according to the report.
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Apple was granted a design patent about ten years ago for the floating glass staircases that are in some of its stores, according to the Reuters report. Steve Jobs is listed as an inventor on that patent.
Last Updated on January 31, 2013 by Ramin Seddiq