Getting a trademark for your well known slogan? There's an app for that.

There isn't really, but we thought it worked well as an opening line for a story about Apple being awarded a trademark for the catchphrase.

The line, which has...

Apple has filed an application for the trademark "iTunes Live". This could be a routine trademark application from the gang at Cupertino, or, and we much prefer the or, it could mean some exciting developments for its iTunes service.

The trademark...

Old-school users of Google's free webmail service in the UK might remember that in the first half of the 00s, the service shared a "Gmail" name with the rest of the world.

However, a trademark dispute meant that from 19 October, 2005, Gmail...

Several sources are reporting that Nintendo has filed a trademark application in Japan for a mystery "Zii" product. Details are light, but the trademark covers "video games and electronic devices", so it could be anything, really.

However,...

Twitter has lost a legal battle to try and trademark the word "tweet", despite it being the official word that describes the short messages issued via its micro-blogging service.

A direct result of the company's open API policy, something...