Cisco grants Apple iPhone time
p2pnet.net news:- Cisco holds the rights to the iPhone name, acquiring the trademark in 2000 after buying the previous owner, Infogear.
So there’s no dispute over who the real owner is. But that didn’t, and still hasn’t, stopped Apple from flooding the media with iPhone pre-release blurb and Cisco consequently sued Apple.
“Given Apple’s numerous requests for permission to use Cisco’s iPhone trademark over the past several years and our extensive discussions with them recently, it is our belief that with their announcement [at the Expo] today, Apple intends to agree to the final document and public statement that were distributed to them last night and that addressed a few remaining items,” said Cisco just after the iPhone launch. “We expect to receive a signed agreement today.”
But no agreement was forthcoming.
The trademark dispute still hasn’t been resolved, “but negotiations have been extended,” says InternetNews.com. “Late Thursday Cisco issued a statement that it is granting Apple’s request for more time to reply to the lawsuit filed by the networrking giant.
“A Cisco spokesman emailed internetnews.com that the brief statement was all the company would have to say about the matter for now, while the two companies engage in ‘an on-going negotiation’ related to the iPhone trademark.”
In response to Cisco’s lawsuit, Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, “told internetnews.com that Cisco’s trademark claim is ’silly’ because there are several companies using the iPhone name for Voice over IP products,” says the story. “Cisco’s U.S. trademark is tenuous at best [because it's being used by others]. We’re the first to use the iPhone name for a cell phone,” she said.
Also See:
sued Apple – Cisco iPhone vs Apple iPhone, January 11, 2006
InternetNews.com – Cisco, Apple Still Wrestling Over iPhone Trademark, February 16, 2006
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