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Samsung files trademarks for Galaxy Emerge, Stellar, and Halo smartphones

On March 2, 2012, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. submitted trademark applications for the Galaxy Emerge (Serial Number: 85558647), the Galaxy Stellar (Serial Number: 85558639), and the Galaxy Halo (Serial Number: 85558619).

The goods and services described in each trademark filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office covers “Mobile phones; Smartphones“.

The Samsung Galaxy S II was recently named “Best Smartphone” by GSMA at Mobile World Congress 2012. 

According to The Verge, “Samsung’s much sought-after Galaxy S III was on track for an April launch, but the company itself has taken to Twitter to refute these claims.”

At the time of this story, not much is known about Samsung’s plans for the Galaxy Emerge, Galaxy Stellar and Galaxy Halo smartphones.

Discussion: The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Softpedia, Geeky Gadgets and Phones Review

(Image of Mobile World Congress 2012 via Samsung.com)

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Motorola files MOTOSMART, MOTOGO! trademarks for mobile and smartphones

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With the Mobile World Congress (MWC) set to begin shortly in Barcelona, Motorola has filed two new trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for MOTOSMART and MOTOGO!.

The goods and services in the MOTOSMART trademark filing (Serial Number: 85548438) cover, “Mobile phones and accessories therefor, namely battery chargers and power adaptors.” 

The MOTOGO! filing (Serial Number: 85548421) is slightly different and covers, “Mobile phones, smartphones, and accessories therefor, namely battery chargers and power adaptors.”

Both applications were filed on February 21, 2012 by Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC.

At the time of this story being published, Motorola has yet to announce the MOTOSMART or MOTOGO! devices.

Discussion: MobileSyrup.com

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Samsung files trademarks for Galaxy Axiom, Awaken, Heir, Rite smartphones

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Samsung Galaxy smartphones

With the Mobile World Congress less than a week away, Samsung has filed four new trademarks for smartphones with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On February 16, 2012, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. submitted trademark applications for the Samsung Galaxy Rite (Serial Number: 85545292), the Samsung Galaxy Heir (Serial Number: 85545288), the Samsung Galaxy Awaken (Serial Number: 85545285), and the Samsung Galaxy Axiom (Serial Number: 85545284).

The goods and services in every single trademark filing cover the exact same thing: “Mobile phones; Smartphones”.

Samsung has yet to officially announce any of these new smartphones.

Discussion: The Next Web, Techmeme, Electronista, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Android Community, AndroidAppTests, Geeky Gadgets, MobileSyrup.com and mobileblog.it

(Photo of Samsung announcing the GALAXY Note via Samsung.com)

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Linsanity dot-com website changes from selling Lin apparel to Coming Soon page

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It looks like Andrew Slayton who coached Jeremy Lin at Palo Alto High School in California and who registered the domain Linsanity.com in 2010, has opted to stop selling Lin-related apparel on the Linsanity.com website.

As of today, instead of seeing t-shirts for sale with sayings like “Lin Your Face #17” like seen in the Google cache snapshot above, people going to Linsanity.com will be greeted by nothing more than a “Coming Soon” page.

What appears to have prompted Andrew Slayton to take down the site is the potential for legal problems.

As a number of sites reported earlier this month, Andrew Slayton also filed to trademark (Serial Number: 85537764) the word “Linsanity” for athletic apparel — namely, shirts, pants, jackets, footwear, hats and caps, and athletic uniforms.

But this week, Jeremy Lin filed to trademark both “Linsanity” (Serial Number: 85541426) and his own name “Jeremy Lin” (Serial Number: 85541428). 

Jeremy’s own filings cover a much wider range of goods and services.

According to Whois records, Andrew Slayton is still the owner of Linsanity.com.

I’ve reached out to Andrew via e-mail to find out more information and will update this post if I hear back.

[Update 1 on February 20, 2012:   Andrew Slayton has unveiled a new look on Linsanity.com that no longer sells Lin-related merchandise.]

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Microsoft files trademark for “Avatar Famestar” for video game services

Avatar Famestar

It appears Microsoft is working on something new for the Xbox called “Avatar Famestar” according to a recent trademark filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On February 13, 2012, filed to trademark “Avatar Famestar”.

The goods and services covered in the trademark filing (Serial Number: 85541451) cover “Downloadable software for video game services” and “Providing an online portal for video game services and social networking”.

As of today, Microsoft has made no announcement as to its plans for “Avatar Famestar”.

Last year, Microsoft released Avatar Kinect, which  lets your personalized avatar interact with or hang out with up to seven other friends in 24 virtual stages ranging from a late-night talk show set to outer space to a sports tailgate party.

[Update 1 on Feb. 18, 2012 5:41am:  A resident of China is cybersquatting on the domain name AvatarFamestar.com.  The name was registered shortly after this story went online.]

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