Apple Trademarks VoicePass, And I Just Nicknamed My iPhone For Them

techcrunch.com — In the spirit of my trademark watch this morning: Earlier this week, Apple filed a U.S. trademark for VOICEPASS, in the Construction and Repair Services category. Bloomberg casually mentioned the trademark filing earlier today, as did one iPhone tips and tricks blogger and Patently Apple. The thing about the trademark is that it was pretty easy to find out what it is for, although I havent seen anyone discussing its impact and potential. So here goes. The description provided to the USPTO for the trademark is pretty long, yet straightforward: Installat Dec 23, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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o76923 Dec 24, 2010

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Verizon and Alliant Energy already have a very similar service where they recognize your account based on your caller ID. What's so special about this? They combined it with voice recognition so you can identify multiple devices?

StevelovesJoy Dec 25, 2010

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This kind of technology has been around for years. But as ever, Apple will come along and copy such an idea. And then they'll do something to it which will make it revolutionary. And then they'll get all the credit.
Typical Apple style.

moddog Dec 26, 2010

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