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The Barbato's filed for 3 SJ trademarks in 2012 after discovering that Apple apparently "forgot" to protect SJ name as a trademark! In the AI article it says that the decision in their favor was taken by an Italian court, but actually it's not an Italian court at all. It was the competent centralized EU trademarks office (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market - OHIM, recently renamed EUIPO) that in 2014 rejected the opposition by Apple and issued the 3 SJ trademarks to the Barbato's. More recently the Barbato's accomplished the extension of the 3 trademarks' reach to the entire world. And that includes several products and services classes, practically entitling the Barbato's to potentially brand also their own "Steve Jobs" smartphone, or license such right to any company.

ARM recent vulnerabilities (incl. Checkm8, Spectre and Meltdown) surfacing in past Apple silicon efforts, including the currently pervasive T2, are concerning indeed. 

PSA does not exist anymore: PSA and FCA (Fiat) merged together into Stellantis on 16 January 2021.

Apple will continue the discussion to ensure that the model [iPhone 12] is not discontinued.

geekmee said:

viclauyyc said:

Break up Meta is not good enough. They better off just shut down Facebook. It is bad for humanity and mental health. 

Uh, that would be outside their scope or constitutional mandate. It’s not their job to protect humanity or mental health.

Don’t Look Up.

Releasing such an information in breach of secrecy agreements may produce, and it did, a sudden spike in the involved company shares. It therefore may be just a greed matter from C-level management.

How can anyone obtain such descriptive trademarks as "Smart Button" for a smart buttons, "Control Strip" for a control strips, and "Home Hub" for home hubs? Let's see what happens if I file trademark "Smartphone" for smartphones and "Organic" for organic food...