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Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

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."

3 of 556 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Backup name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moderators, shirizaki thought of this comment nearly the same time as User956, so how would he be able to tell it would be redundant?

  2. Re:Trademark info by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Apple follows the trends and becomes a player in the phone market then I'd expect them to release the iPhone as the "Apple v768m" or some other innocuous brand name. Then the next model can be the Apple v295jk that is smaller and then the Apple 999z which will include a 20 gig flash drive and UMTS support.

  3. Re:WOW! by Jesus_666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder if that lawyer is affiliated with a certain Count Insidious...

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