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Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch'
suraj.sun sends this excerpt from MacRumors:
"In a decision handed down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been denied an application for a trademark on Multi-Touch. ... For trademarks, 'the greater the degree of descriptiveness the term has, the heavier the burden to prove it has attained secondary meaning.' The trademark attorney pointed out that the term 'multitouch' has taken on generic meaning, being used by a wide variety of publications to describe the touchscreen technology on Android phones, tablets, and notebooks."
Paul Reubens already has the trademark on a secondary meaning for "multi-touch"
Most people don't know him by that name, but Pee Wee Herman instead. The "incident" you referred to was him masturbating in a porno theater.
Of course, what is also rumored is that the real reason why he was arrested is that the "effect" of his "multi-touch" technique resulted in assaulting a police officer... in the back of the head. Which officer is going to write that down in a statement? None. Hence, the lesser charge of whacking off in public.
Now, what I find the most amazing about the whole thing is that there exists a dark theater full of men watching porn with loaded weapons behind them about to go off at anytime. A really disgusting kind of Russian Roulette. How the heck do you rub one out with somebody doing the same thing behind you? Never made much sense to me.
All I ever really wanted to know, was if Paul Reubens did his signature laugh at the end. That would have been priceless. I can imagine that officer always involuntarily looking behind him anytime somebody laughs funny.