HP Files for PalmPad Trademark with USPTO

In early July, Hewlett-Packard completed the acquisition of smartphone maker Palm Inc. for a price tag (News - Alert) of $1.2 billion. And with that it acquired Palm’s innovative WebOS mobile platform, which the world’s largest PC maker is planning to use on a range of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. Hoping that this acquisition will give the company the technologies and strategies needed to grab a big byte out of the emerging smartphone and tablet markets.

HP’s acquisition of Palm immediately puts the PC-centric company knee-deep in the smartphone race, but perhaps more importantly positions the company to compete in the burgeoning tablet market, believes market research firm iSuppli Corp.

Now the word is out that HP has filed for a trademark for the word “PalmPad”. According to MyHPMini.com, this request by HP with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was filed on July 9^th.  The serial number for the application is 85081711 and additional data can be obtained from the USPTO’s Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval system at http://tarr.uspto.gov/.

Although, there is very little information on this filing, it is understood that the trademark would apply to a wide variety of products, ranging from computer hardware and software to electronic notepads and mobile digital electronic devices.

According to Examinar.com columnist Daryl Deino, HP’s upcoming WebOS tablet will be officially called PalmPad. Earlier it had a code name Hurricane. In this column, Deino wrote that just like HP's tm series of notebookDeino thinks that the WebOS tablet, unlike the iPad, will be an actual tablet. So, one will be able to take handwritten notes on it and easily search for notes., the WebOS tablet will have a screen that recognizes a wacom pen while functioning as a capacitive touchscreen. Consequently,

Meanwhile, as per market research firm iSuppli’s latest data, Apple (News - Alert) Inc. is ratcheting up its iPad production targets to meet booming demand. iSuppli now predicts that Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, an increase from the previous forecast of 7.1 million units in April. Likewise, shipments will rise to 36.5 million in 2011 and 50.4 million in 2012.