This is interesting, at least for us. Palm have registered the trademark PALMPAD in the U.S. according to a news item from MyHPMini.

The WePad got crushed and turned into a ‘Tab’ and the EeePad hasn’t actually launched so it will be interesting to see how far ‘PalmPad’ goes. It will also be interesting to see what happens to my 4 year old company ‘CarryPad’ that runs mobile computing websites from Germany. Could this turn into another Smartbook story with a German company aiming for a quick and evil kill with legal proceedings, bans against bloggers and general selfish behaviour. Could Carrypad take the hard-line and say that it has exclusive rights to this whole ‘pad’ market? Will we see Chippy getting all big and official?

Or is ‘Pad’ and bad as ‘MID’

Yup – Pad is a terrible stand-alone generic name for a mobile computer so there’s really no need for anyone to worry. The more pads the merrier and I can’t wait to see the PalmPad. I’m still estimating Q1 2011 for it and am sure that both Intel and all the ARM-based silicon suppliers are fighting it out right now to be the platform inside. Anyone care to place bets on it being an Intel Moorestown-based device? Intel’s MeeGo and Android kernel,driver, userspace and power work would slip in quite nicely with a WebOS architecture on top.

Via SlashGear