HP files trademark for Touchpad name

Hewlett Packard has just filed for trademark protection on the term "HP Touchpad," and unless it’s poised for a marketing push based around its laptop input devices, we suspect that this will be yet another tablet from the venerable Silicon Valley manufacturer. The description for the filing is fairly broad, however, the meat of it clearly refers to "computer hardware, namely memory cards; computer hardware for telecommunications; computer monitors; mobile digital electronic devices; mobile computers; handheld computers; portable computers; tablet computers; personal digital assistants; electronic organizers; computer memories; telephones; mobile telephones; pagers; smartphones, videophones."