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Remains of the Day: Tricks of the trademark

29.10.2010
You might think that Apple can escape all those endless lawsuits about trademarks and intellectual property when it does business overseas, but no such luck. Also, a former POTUS loves his iPad, and look! Up there in the sky! It's a bird...it's a plane...well, actually, it's Steve Jobs's plane. Get ready to go up, up, and away with the remainders for Friday, October 29, 2010.

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Ten years ago, Taiwan-based Proview created and marketed a portable computer. It tanked. But apparently the one thing they think to do was trademark the product's name: the I-Pad. Fast forward a decade and Apple's . Proview's new business plan? Sell the trademark to the highest bidder to pay off the $400 million in loans they owe. I guess it's like the old Apple ad says: "While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius."

(Gizmodo)

Apparently number 43 is addicted to his iPad, using it to read every morning and play his favorite app which--believe it or not--is Scrabble. I'm as shocked as you are. That's totally not .

(Fortune)