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Cisco Lost Rights to iPhone Trademark Last Year?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the use-it-or-lose-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it."

3 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    iKnow that

    --Steve

  2. simple solution by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cisco should just rebrand their iPhone product line and call them Apple Phones.

    --
    This guy's the limit!
  3. Why aPhone? by Bright+Apollo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Y'know, seeing as how it's an Apple product, they can rebrand the whole of their catalog (usher in the new era of Apple Inc). That way you can own aMac and aPhone and aServer with aWirelessLAN. Of course, you could also get aLife...

    -BA