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Apple Files 'Noteworthy' Trademark for OCR App?

Posted May 17, 2011 at 2:32pm by iClarified · 6795 views
Apple has filed a trademark application with the Europen Trademark Office for the mark 'Noteworthy', according to PatentlyApple.

Today, the European Trademark Office has revealed Apple's latest "Noteworthy" trademark filing. On the surface it appears to be a new iOS app – that may relate to providing OCR capabilities. If correct, it would support a February 2011 patent describing a future optical in-LCD sensing panel for the iOS devices: In other words – an App that could allow your iPhone to double as a scanner. Yet at the end of the day it's a blind trademark filing which keeps the door open to other possibilities.

It's thought that perhaps 'Noteworthy' could be one of the things Apple unveils at WWDC this year.

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