Creating an eBook based on a consumer product

[jurban30101]

I would like to create an eBook, for sale, targeted at high school kids for using an iPad. One potential book would be "Using the iPad for High School Statistics". It would be something similar to "iPad for Dummies" only with a more specific audience. Can I legally use iPad in the title and describe the use of this product in the book? It would also include images, that I create, of the iPad.

Thanks,

Jim Urban
Acworth, GA

 

[quincy]

Apple owns the iPad trademark.

Apple has published online easy-to-understand guidelines for the use of this trademark and their other trademarked and copyrighted material.

Because Apple itself will be the best and most reliable source of information for you, on if you can (or how you can) develop your eBooks, I suggest you visit Apple's legal site, accessible through the link provided below.

Contacting Apple directly with your plans to develop eBooks for iPads is not only wise, it is advised, so that you can avoid all claims of infringement that might otherwise arise from your use of their mark.

http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html

You have a good idea, Jim. I wish you luck with it.