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Cisco VP Explains Lawsuit Against Apple
Dekortage writes "The day after Apple announced its iPhone, Cisco sued over the name. Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, has posted an explanation of the suit on his blog: 'For the last few weeks, we have been in serious discussions with Apple over how the two companies could work together and share the iPhone trademark. ...I was surprised and disappointed when Apple decided to go ahead and announce their new product with our trademarked name without reaching an agreement. It was essentially the equivalent of "we're too busy."' What did Cisco want? '[We] wanted an open approach. We hoped our products could interoperate in the future.'" Another reader wrote to mention that already, Cisco's trademark might be in trouble in Europe.
I just trademarked "iDoorStop", "iPaperWieght", and "iNotFunny"
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Well, there's no doubt you'll be able to win any lawsuit contesting, "iNotFunny" :)
... There's no Troll here. Move along ..
It's a joke people
Bark less. Wag more.
It won't be long before we get the massive market re-branding: aPhone, aMac, and aPod
So soon I can tell all those mac fanbois to get aLife?
Laugh, it's funny.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
C'mon, Apple. Call it the WiiPhone. Or the XPhone360. Or the ApplePhone With Jay Leno. There's lawyers starving on the East Coast who desperately need the work, and having to settle for 5 series insetad of 7 series.
What did Cisco want? '[We] wanted an open approach.'
'What did Cisco want? [We] approached Steve and asked him to open his wallet'
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
After all, they're not selling the aHole.
Everyone has one of those.
Don't you mean "iAnal"?
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
The Urban Hippie
It still all strikes me as a massive loss of perspective. I guess I just can't grok lawyerthink. Perhaps if I sustain a brutal head injury some day.
They should do what they did in 1991
Call it the Sosumi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Apple has a history of using unusual humor to its advantage
Well, they can't call it the "iGo" because then Toyota would get mad.
Personally, I think it ought to be called "iPod" -- the multiple functions certainly make it more of a "pod" than those things that were basically only media players ever were.
And yes, eGo would be a great name for it too! Of course, then they'd need to partner with iD to put mobile Doom on it...
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Apple really, really wanted to use Sosumi as the ringtone on this phone.