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Apple Trademarks 'Graphulator' and 'Bonjour' [Update]

A simple search for current trademarks by Apple Computer at The US Patent and Trademark office reveals a new trademark for "computer hardware; computer software" under the mark "Graphulator".

The trademark was filed on February 3rd 2005 by Apple Computer.

Apple has also trademarked 'Bonjour' in late January which is reportedly to be used to rename Apple's current Rendezvous technology due to litigation.

(A previous report from eWeek had hinted that Rendezvous would be renamed to Opentalk, but a final decision had not been made at the time of that article)


While Apple's trademarks have traditionally preceded new products, Apple does also hold trademarks for several names which have never been used. (Gigawire, iWrite and others).
Update: The leading candidate for "Graphulator", however, appears to be the recently Apple-acquired application Curvus Pro X.
Update: All references to Rendezvous has been changed to Bonjour in the latest Tiger seed. (8A385)

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91 months ago
Why the hangup on French names? "Bonjour" sounds horrible.
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91 months ago
I was under the impression it was going to be renamed OpenTalk? :confused:
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91 months ago

"Bonjour" sounds horrible.

Sure does... C'mon Apple, you can come up with something better than that!
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91 months ago

Why the hangup on French names? "Bonjour" sounds horrible.


'Rendezvous' always felt a bit cheeky to me. A bit 'nugde-nudge, wink-wink', 'quick knee-trembler in the store room', if you catch my drift.

'Bonjour' ... errr, doesn't really.

I certainly don't think a 'Bonjour' menu on my Safari bookmark bar would be all that great...
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91 months ago
This may very well be the new graphing calculator. And Bonjour has got to be the worst name they could've chosen... :eek:
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91 months ago
3rd component to Iwork?
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91 months ago
Maybe they plan to hold "Gigawire" until they can manage to suck 1 Gb through a USB/Firewire-derivative.

My opinion: Rendevzous > Bonjour.

And Graphulator = obviously new graph calculator.
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91 months ago

3rd component to Iwork?


Probably the graphing calculator that will be a new feature in Tiger.
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91 months ago

This may very well be the new graphing calculator. And Bonjour has got to be the worst name they could've chosen... :eek:


Well, apart from Graphulator, that is :eek:
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91 months ago

Well, apart from Graphulator, that is :eek:


Yeah, you're right. That's pretty bad too. :D
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