Nanosys to Abandon TrueQ Trademark Application for Quantum-Dot TVs

Nanosys will let “lapse” its application to trademark the name TrueQ because “this is one we did not end up deploying,” emailed Director-Marketing Jeff Yurek. It sought the trademark three years ago to give TV maker licensees the option of adopting QLED quantum-dot displays in their sets without being associated with Samsung’s branding of that technology (see 1705300060). Nanosys got four deadline extensions on the application and would have been entitled to a fifth and final one if it had requested it by late February. Samsung owns two QLED-related trademarks -- 8K QLED granted July 2 and Samsung QLED approved March 3. It has at least four more applications for QLED pending at the Patent and Trademark Office. Rival LG actually owns the trademark to QLED as a stand-alone term. Granted in March 2018, it’s for a class of content delivery software used in mobile phones.