http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Cisco sues Apple for trademark infringement: ruh roh! http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/Jan 10th 2007 7:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/
Next thing you know, the Beatles are going to sue again because they took "Computer" out of their corporate name...]]>Jan 10th 2007 7:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/Jan 10th 2007 7:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/
Apple was dumb not to see that coming. I totally thought they had worked something out. Kudos to Cisco for waiting until SJobs "released" the iPhone. I should have bought some stock earlier today...

Rom Bokobza,
you are not any brighter either. Cisco has owned the iPhone trademark for longer than the iPod has been around.
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"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," said Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman.

They were good with the iPod, but the iPhone will be their Waterloo......

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First, yes, Cisco does hold the "iPhone" trademark, and has held it since long before the advent of the iPod.

But...they didn't bring an iPhone product to market until it was painfully obvious to just about everyone in the world (the exceptions being my neighbor's grandmother and someone in Mongolia) that Apple was preparing a wireless communications device in hopes of capitalizing on the success of the iPod. The logical name, the name being tossed around in the press and around water coolers? iPhone.

So. Seems to me Cisco has the trademark, and thus are well within their rights to file suit. But that doesn't stop them from being a bunch of jealous trademark campers choosing the "iPhone" name for a consumer product in hopes of either a) doing exactly this to Apple or b) getting people to buy the product because they think it is related to the iPod.]]>Jan 10th 2007 9:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/Jan 10th 2007 10:11PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/it is really simple.

iPod was first released in 2001

iPhone was a trademarked whose ownership was bought by Cisco... in 2000

Also, Cisco has RELEASED a VOIP phone and branded it the iPhone like 2 months ago.

Apple has... not (announcing a release is not the same thing as actually releasing something).

You apple fanboys make me laugh, I think those turtlenecks are preventing blood from reaching your brain. ]]>Jan 10th 2007 10:03PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/
Maybe in the corrupt courts of whatever asian country Apple just lost their last suit in... but not in the US.]]>Jan 11th 2007 8:37AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/
Apple will pay it in the next 4 months and we'll all get our $599 iToy anyway. Absolutely shrewd.]]>Jan 10th 2007 11:09PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/Jan 11th 2007 1:22AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cisco-sues-apple-for-trademark-infringement-ruh-roh/
Even though Cisco has the patent on the iPhone they should be reasonable with the naming of a product that is actually existing and successful. If I had patented iPod in 1995 should that allow me to sue because the letters I chose matched a product. NO!!

Give me a break. Is this going to become such idiocy that everyone in America decides to patent every combination of letters, words, and symbols to the point that creativity is elimnated.

Go you.]]>Jan 11th 2007 2:16AM