Apple Delivers iPhone
Cisco sues Apple over use of 'iPhone'
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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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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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A Phone.
Maybe APhone...but either way, it's just a phone. 😁
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.
Dres - Celebration, FL soon to be Florida Mall, Orlando, FL
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?
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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