October 08, 2003
Get Those Trademark Applications Ready
Sony has just announced the release of the PSX – a combination hard disk drive and DVD recorder:
The two PSX models of DESR-5000 and DESR-7000 are equipped with maximum capacity HDD respectively to accommodate various features in serving as a digital home electronics product as well as a game device for enjoying PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games.
In otherwords the PSX serves both as a console game player and a DVD recorder/player for a home entertainment system.
That's nifty-keen, of course, but what I'm noticing about this is the device's name, PSX.
My own nifty-keen new computer runs an operating system called OS X (where the X is to be read as a Roman numeral ten rather than as the letter 'x'). The ambiguity between Roman numerals and letters, is often overlooked.
Clearly, if you want your high-tech electronic or computer product to be seen as part of the cutting edge of the 21st century, you should name it something like the QS-X or RSX. Get your application into the Patent and Trademark Office quickly. You don't want to have to settle for ZSX.
(via Charlie Stross)
Posted by abostick at October 8, 2003 01:48 PMoh yeah. but you need to be careful -- too much of a good thing, and all that. don't go with somethingXX, because that means you're a crappy heavy metal band. and somethingXXX ... well.
Posted by: piranha at October 8, 2003 04:17 PMSaying if I wanted a trademark for my singing group name, how will I go by doing that
Thank You;
Dontae Richardson
