Samsung Seeks ‘SmartThings Home Tablet’ Trademark for ‘Smart Home Hubs’

January 21, 2022 by Paul Gluckman|Intellectual Property

Samsung applied Jan. 14 to trademark “SmartThings Home Tablet” for commercializing “smart home hubs” in a tablet form factor to connect robotic vacuum cleaners and other home appliances to a wireless network, Patent and Trademark Office records show. The company announced the launch of Samsung Home Hub earlier this month, billing it as a “new way to manage home appliances” via a “tablet-style touchscreen device” that uses AI and SmartThings technology “to understand users’ needs and automatically provide the right solutions” to household tasks. Samsung didn’t comment about its commercial deployment plans for the SmartThings Home Tablet trademark. Samsung bought the SmartThings IoT platform in August 2014, making it part of the Samsung Open Innovation Center (see 1408180053).