It’s been a weekend full of bizarre trademark filings and patent applications, and Sony has joined the flurry with an appropriately curious filing of their own. Siliconera once again comes through with a new trademark discovery, this one for a new online service — maybe? — from Sony called “Qriosity” (pronounced “curiosity,” like Sony’s equally weirdly named Qore and Qrios — they really like their Qs).
According to the trademark filing, it’s registered for use with “portable gaming machines” and “game services provided on-line from a computer network.” Since an online survey recently bubbled up regarding possible features for Sony’s potential premium PSN service, the natural line of conjecture so far points to Qriosity being the name for said premium service.
One, ahem, curiosity about the filing, though, is that it was made by Sony proper and not Sony Computer Entertainment specifically. Moreover, the more specific details of the trademark filing seem to suggest a service much more geared toward e-commerce than online gaming. They include, among other things, the mention of an “online shopping mall with links to the retail websites of others,” “file sharing and information portal in the field of e-commerce,” and “online distribution of music, image, or video.”
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