As for the company's products Apple, it has become a rule that they are largely unknown until their official announcement. The Apple company is notorious for its secrecy, which is why fans are left with all kinds of concepts and leaks until the last moment. But there is one place in the world that learns about new products well in advance - Jamaica.
This is because even before new products are revealed Apple in Jamaica handles the formalities associated with a trademark. This happened in the case of Siri, Apple Watch, macOS, and several dozen other major Apple products, months before the relevant documents were processed "at home" in the United States. Apple is not the only company that practices this method of trademark registration – far from Silicon Valley, Google, for example, also files its trademarks, Amazon whether MicrosoftIn addition to Jamaica, the place of this "office" is Iceland, South Africa, or Trinidad and Tobago.
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Tech giants take advantage of US trademark law, which allows them to file trademark applications in secret. Once a mark is registered with an intellectual property office outside the United States, a company has six months to also register it with the US patent office. Once he has done so, he can point to his original application, filed abroad, as proof that he has a priority right to the mark. This procedure prevents competitors from examining public lists of filed applications in an attempt to spot any plans of a given company.
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A trademark applied for outside the United States is not actually secret, but it is relatively difficult to obtain because in many cases it requires a personal meeting in the United States.ancThe Kingston office has no plans to publish the data online. This tactic is popular with large technology companies. It is a relatively expensive process that may not be worth it for smaller companies.
