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Cisco sues Apple over use of 'iPhone'

andre171

Jan 11, 2007, 1:48 AM
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Cisco sues Apple over use of 'iPhone'
It is claiming trademark infringement

Thursday, January 11, 2007

By ARI LEVY AND SUSAN DECKER
BLOOMBERG NEWS

Cisco Systems Inc. sued Apple Inc. on Wednesday over the use of the iPhone name, setting up a trademark battle a day after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced the new mobile device.

Cisco claims that it owns the iPhone name for telephone service, and said in the complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco that the Apple product "will share an identical sight and sound and strong similarity of meaning." Apple called the suit "silly" and said it was confident it would prevail.
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ebaydan777

Jan 11, 2007, 2:17 AM
ya...i honestly think itll end up being called ApplePhone with the apple symbol like AppleTV by the time it is released...that would be cool, its a nice change from "ieverything", i think iphone is another code name, but i could be wrong and apple may just take it to court and pay them off for it
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adilus

Jan 11, 2007, 8:55 AM
There is a reasonable chance that this will go to mediation where Apple will pay Cisco to use the moniker.

I doubt they take it to trial because recent trademark issue lawsuits have gone the way of the person employing the trademark if the owner does not use it. There is also relevance from the car industry in cases like this that basically prevented the manufacturers from trademarking the most common names or basically the dictionary in the car name design. In the car industry a trademark was only valid when there was a product associated and in the case of prototypes and pre-production this trademark would automatically dissolve after 2 years.

Its also reasonable to assume that the trademark for Cisco's iPhone was soon to expire as...
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sweetsoprano

Jan 11, 2007, 10:22 AM
Well, Cisco DID have the name trademarked first. Which now makes Apple a bunch of thieves and copiers. Innovation, my @$$. 🙄
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lang

Jan 11, 2007, 10:30 AM
They are innovating with the actual cell phone it self. Just in legal trouble with the name ;)
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Cinner

Jan 11, 2007, 11:22 AM
Personally, I just say make it...

A Phone.

Maybe APhone...but either way, it's just a phone. 😁
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undrgrnd

Jan 11, 2007, 12:34 PM
lets call it the i-pod phone... since that is all this is is an ipod with shotty memory that can make phone calls...
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LordObento

Jan 11, 2007, 3:13 PM
Or iSpace (bite on myspace), or iLife, or iMate(another lawsuit), or iLO for i life online (MyLO bite), or iBlow for Steve Jobs's middlename.
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sweetsoprano

Jan 11, 2007, 11:33 AM
lang said:
They are innovating with the actual cell phone it self. Just in legal trouble with the name ;)


Maybe...but come on. They put all this time into developing this phone and couldn't even come up with an original name? And they want to be anointed as The Next Big Thing? I'm sorry, but I'm going to need Apple to come better than that.
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puertorok

Jan 11, 2007, 2:45 PM
I saw a video on this thing about 4-5 months ago and it was called the iTalk. Why don't they just switch it to that?

Dres - Celebration, FL soon to be Florida Mall, Orlando, FL
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ZeroSanity

Jan 11, 2007, 11:00 AM
adilus said:
a jury would more than like side with Apple on this because of the development of the iPod name.


Didn't the iTrend start with the iMac?
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SkillciaX

Jan 11, 2007, 1:06 PM
yeah I think so, that's where I remember seeing it first.

either way the "i" thing is important to Apple because what you name something is very important... Apple is well known now for naming their products with the "i" in it. If they had to call their products by something else... well then the products wouldn't be as popular, because they might be overlooked...

It's Like would you buy a Chocolate, or and LG something or other....
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