Intel has hard insisted that it is the owner of the Thunderbolt earmark , not Apple .
Reports from earlier this week hint that Apple was claiming the trademark after written document revealing an lotion from Apple for the Thunderbolt name were spotted in the files of the US and Canadian stylemark bureau .
Intel had always lay title to the development of the technology , ab initio codenamed Light Peak , which is able to transplant data between host twist and external devices at speed of up to 10Gbps ( gigabits per second ) in both directions .
However , no claim to the trademark by Intel could be notice in the file of the U.S. and Canadian trademark office , advise that Thunderbolt could have been Apple ’s exclusive name for the technology , with any other steel planning to use it requiring a different name .
But Intel has since insist that Thunderbolt is its intellectual place , not Apple ’s . An Intel spokesman told theBright Side of NewsWebsite :
“ As part of our collaboration with Apple , they did some of the initial trademark filings . Intel has full rights to the Thunderbolt hallmark now and into the future . The Thunderbolt name will be used run forward on all platforms , disregardless of operating system . ”
As yet only Apple has used Thunderbolt engineering in its product line , with Sony rumoured to be considering using it but HP latterly choose for USB 3.0 over Thunderbolt in a new line of desktop PCs .
But9to5Macgot some extra data from Intel , stating that Sony had a somewhat unlike plan for using Thunderbolt technology .
“ Sony ’s desire to use USB Connector or else of DisplayPort one and the eventual modification of engineering brandmark ( Sony ’s IEEE1394 a.k.a . Firewire execution was named i. LINK ) will have to be press out as the time travel by by , ” an Intel spokesman told 9to5Mac .
