Microsoft has announced that the name of its new operating system coming out next year will be called “Vista.” As of the date of this posting, a search of the records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office reveals no applications on file for the mark VISTA owned by Microsoft. Is this an oversight or merely a consequence of the several day backlog for getting information about new applications online? Perhaps it’s just a load date issue.
Further: More observations on this subject over at Infamy or Praise.
And further: Dennis Crouch over at Patently-O has a this post on the delay one finds in the world of patent applications.