Jeff Campbell
10-12-2010, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-gets-a-trademark-theres-an-app-for-that/62892?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+cultofmac/bFow+(Cult+of+Mac)' target='_blank'>http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-gets...w+(Cult+of+Mac)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"'There's an app for that' is the 'Where's the beef?' or 'I can't believe I ate the whole thing' of our generation: an advertising slogan so ubiquitous and memorable that it is referenced constantly in popular culture. Lazy joke writers love it, while Don Draper himself would admire it's almost crystalline beauty."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1286887148.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>I knew I should have trademarked this the first time I heard it. This phrase, when it first came out, was used frequently as a joke by myself and several of my coworkers, becoming much like the "that's what she said" phrase popularized by Michael Scott of "The Office." I think we are still safe in using it around here because, in the Apple trademark paperwork, they outline when it should be used, specifically <em>"...retail store services featuring computer software provided via the Internet and other computer and electronic communication networks; retail store services featuring computer software for use on handheld mobile digital electronic devices and other consumer electronics."</em></p>