Just in time for the appreciated iPad to go on sale, Apple has obtained the trademark on its name. A document from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, dated March 17, shows the trademark on "IPAD" has been send to Apple from Fujitsu Frontech North America. The story was first exposed by the blogPatentauthority.com.

The iPad will go on sale April 3. Apple declared the tablet at a heavily reported event in San Francisco on January 27, before it even owned the product's name.
A similar thing occurred when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007. Shortly after the iPhone was publicized in January of that year, Cisco sued Apple over its use of the name. About a month later, the companies declared they had reached an agreement under which both companies could use the name. They said they had agreed to "explore opportunities for interoperability," but didn't expose any other details of the deal.

In additional of the Japanese corporation that builds point-of-sale and examine by self systems for retail stores. In its application for the trademark, it said the first use of the name was for a "hand-held computing device for wireless networking in a retail environment," in January 2002. The Fujitsu iPad had a 3.5-inch color touch screen and cost approximately US$2,000, significantly over the Apple iPad's starting price of $499. Fujitsu reportedly also had to get the iPad trademark from a different company, Mag-Tek.