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Thank you to the Midwest Intellectual Property Institute / Minnesota CLE for the invite and thanks to all attendees for hearing me out.

Engadget notes that Apple has filed two trademark applications for IPODCAST last week, covering extremely broad ranges of goods and services.  Engadget’s negative reaction seems misplaced (and seems to confuse patent concepts with trademark concepts).  Apple is seeking exclusive rights to use IPODCAST as a trademark to identify certain goods and services – it is not