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Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark
lucabrasi999 writes "It appears that Apple may be running out of items that they can prefix with the letter "i". Cisco is suing Apple over trademark infringement. Cisco claims to own the rights to the "iPhone" trademark since they purchased Infogear in 2000. Infogear filed for the rights to the trademark in 1996."
Appeal to the younger generation with the hip, new, stylin' "iFone"!
iTalk
Perhaps they could call it iPodPhone without violating the trademark...the iPP could be the biggest thing since the Wii!
Better to call it "iPhone" and get your ass sued than call it "Zune" and paint it brown and squirt it everywhere.
Cisco is suing Apple over trademark infringement.
iPhowned!
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
This "iFirst Post" is first in the same sense that Apple was first to the name "iPhone."
[i]but could they really call it anything else?[/i]
iPod Phone, Phone iPod, Apple Phone, Granny Smith, Red Delicious...
How about iPhoneTVMovieBrowserThing?
That one's already been spoken for, too.
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Furthermore, since the "i" refers to "Internet" couldn't Al Gore succesfully sue both companies?
I'm down with iPP. You're down with iPP. Yea, you know Wii. Get down with iPP.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
iScream?
Call it iCisco. Turnabout is fair play and I doubt they trademarked that specific name.
In other news the Cisco Kid wants his name back. His legal firm Pancho, Pancho and Pancho are filing papers Monday to block Cisco from using his trademarked name.
Well, when my kid goes Wii, he says "iPP".
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That one is owned by CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet.
PhonePod is actually pretty good. Or even better, PodPhone. "Pod" is probably associated with Apple far more than the "i" is, and there are plenty of Apple products without an i in the name.
It's sort of late to change it now, but by no means too late... I can see Jobs selling the new name already: "And we here at Apple are thinking so far into the future, we've decided to drop the "i" that we innovated to the industry in 1998 since we're doing much more than "i" could possibly express. Boom, it's gone. Goodbye "i", welcome LifePod. Look, it's small and shiny!" *Audience hemorrhages from too much excitement*
Don't you mean to say iPuzzled?
... Well as long as it's not "Mac Phone" it's ok by me.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
New name:
BHN
(N = Networking)
How about iPoop
MacPhone.
i think that it would be a fair name. it runs OS X, so it's almost a Mac already.
Maybe they could call it something based on the name Newton.
NewtonPhone?
iNewton?
iPhoNewton?
Umm...i think they should just call it the MacPhone.
my pet machine
How about iDontGiveAF*ck :D
Then it will be confused wwith Internet Printing Protocol.o tocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Pr
How about the iPod/phone/internet device formerly know as iPhone?
different markets, for sure. 1 button vs 75 buttons.
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
Red Delicious
This is what I would do. If they think this is on par with the Macintosh, go with another apple. Good names include Cortland, Pippin, Fugi, Lodi, Ginger Gold, Braeburn, and of course, Ms. Boyd's Special.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Play on the "Pod" part of the word:
Most of the stuff on
Now that everyone has seen the product, they could call it the AssPod and sell a billion of them.
Most of the stuff on
if they're gonna make a nod to Star Trek, why not just call it the iConn?
Just saying, is all....
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Who are in turn owned by Bill Gates after the 'buyout' a few years back.
iPwn.
"You see, I really wouldn't think Steve would make a dumb decision like not have the rights nailed down tight before MacWorld .."
Yeah, that would be like, what? Not having the correct date "nailed down" on stock option documents?
:wq
I very much doubt that. *wipes nose with non-Kleenex-brand-kleenex while walking to the canon all-in-one printer to xerox a form, while listening to music on a non-Sony walkman*
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Of course, Apple will now trademark the terms "iRouter, iSwitch and iGateway" and will screw Cisco at some later date when Cisco develops their line of "Intelligent Devices"... Though it is Cisco, so it may be a while.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Jobs: "iForOne welcome our new suing overlords."
iPwned!
Remove the 'H', the 'E' add an 'R' and make it a fapping device!
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True story: The database company Informix (which later got bought-out by IBM) had a product suite they needed a name for. At the time, they were trying to become "The Internet Company" so lots of their products started with lowercase "i" followed by a capitalized word (e.g. iSpy for a monitoring package). They announced a company-wide contest to name the new product. Any employee could submit a name for consideration, the top-ten would be voted on and the winner would be the name. I submitted the following: "iSoar" purely as a joke. It didn't make the top-ten, but it was on a list of "honorable mentions." I was never quite sure whether that meant that they got the joke or didn't.
(oh, and if it's hard to see why it's funny in print, it's because the pronunciation is "eyesore," which probably isn't a very good product name)
triCorder
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iMobile sounds more like something Steve Jobs would drive to Macworld
that's the name they will use for the new apple car, endorsed by adam west. "quickly robin! to the iMobile!"
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