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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."

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  1. Good. by mobby_6kl · · Score: 0, Troll

    I swear, if Apple introduces another iSomething product line, I'm gonna fucking kill them!R#@(%
    As someone already mentioned,$#%S they weren't even the first/only ones to start using iSomething, thankfully almost everybody else who tried it were smart enough to drop it after a few product releases.
    $#^)&@#$&(^#4BBBZZZZZZZ
    OH! Looks like the RDF was malfunctioning! You suck Cisco! If Apple wants to name their phone iPhone, you should bend over and let them! If the Cisco people only understood the hidden genius of this naming scheme, they'd hand over the rights voluntarily.

  2. Re:Trademark abandonment by edwardpickman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ultimately it's legal extortion. Cisco obviously released a product with that name to give them grounds for a lawsuit. There has to be an intent claus added to the law. Cisco owned the tradmark by way of acquiring a company and sat on it five years while Apple spent hundreds of millions developing an "i" trademark. Apple has used the trademark extensively and until Apple proposed a phone Cisco did not persue the secondhand trademark. This is extortion and corporate greed. It's Cisco with their hand in Apple's pocket. I used to respect Cisco but this is really sleazy.

  3. Re:MacPhone maybe? by Mateito · · Score: 0, Troll
    The original iMac (the first iThing) was touted as being easy to connect to the internet.

    Apple bundled an AOL CD?

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