{"id":2014,"date":"2010-02-01T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:31:00","slug":"is-this-why-apple-called-it-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/is-this-why-apple-called-it-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this why Apple called it the iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s well-known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buyipadreviews.com\/2010\/02\/apple-ipad-tablet-trademark-name-faces.html\">Fujitsu are likely to sue Apple<\/a> because they believe they own the name &#8220;iPad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, fewer people will be aware that the &#8220;Apple iPad&#8221; was already mentioned in July of 2006:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8eF0y0IfpPU&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8eF0y0IfpPU&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the producers of this sketch are going to try to sue Apple, too.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Apple knew it already and thought that it was so funny that they&#8217;d make it happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s well-known that Fujitsu are likely to sue Apple because they believe they own the name &#8220;iPad&#8221;. However, fewer people will be aware that the &#8220;Apple iPad&#8221; was already mentioned in July of 2006: I wonder whether the producers of this sketch are going to try to sue Apple, too. Perhaps Apple knew it already and thought that it was so funny that they&#8217;d make it happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,113,114,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-humour","category-computing","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}