TODAY’S TRADEMARK – ECHO DOT

Amazon’s Echo Dot is one product of many in the Amazon Echo family. It’s a popular smart speaker that uses a virtual assistant named Alexa that’s developed from AI, looking more like a hockey puck than the Echo’s original cylindrical shape, the Dot measures a little over 3 inches in diameter and is nearly 1.5 inches high. Amazon started developing Echo devices inside its Lab126 offices in Silicon Valley and in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 2010. There are many generations of the Echo Dot, including the original 1st Generation, 2nd Generation, 3rd Generation, and 4th Generation ones. Starting at $50, the Echo Dot is the least expensive Echo speaker. For example, the Echo Studio costs $200.

The word mark “ECHO DOT” has been registered by the Amazon Technologies Inc. as a Malaysian Trademark bearing the serial numbers. 2016009097 & 2016009096 on 25^th February 2016 under the classes 9 & 38 of the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks. One can access Alexa through your Echo Dot by saying the wake word near the device. The wake word is the name to which the device will listen to know when you’re calling it. With the help of echo dot, one can learn and use new skills that can add safety, convenience, and joy to life.