Regarding Apple Watch trademark and Switzerland<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">There's a trademark in Switzerland that might complicate an Apple Watch launch in that country — though Apple has yet to announce such a launch.</p> <p>The
trademark is for a logo showing a stylized image of an apple with the word "APPLE" in italics cutting horizontally across the middle. It was filed in 1985 and has been renewed every ten years since. It's currently scheduled to come due again in December of 2015. <!--break--></p> <p>The trademark is in the news thanks to
RTS and
Reuters, who somehow managed to misidentify the nature of the intellectual property claim as a patent instead of a trademark.</p> <p>Apple, of course, has yet to announce an
Apple Watch launch for Switzerland. That means there's nothing to "hit" and really no story at all. When and if Apple does announce Swiss availability, then a determination will have to be made on the likelihood of confusion between the two products — if indeed the trademark holder has a product in play at the time — and that sounds like it
isn't a sure thing. Either way, it's currently the kind of news that isn't.</p> <p>9 actually announced countries come up for pre-orders on April 10 and release on April 24.</p> <div class="devicebox"> <h3>
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