Cisco vs. Apple Over iPhone Name
February 18, 2007 7:11 PM | Apple | Comments (0)
| What's been going on with Apple's new iPhone, you ask? A lot I tell you. After much rumor and anticipation, Apple finally launched the iPhone. However, a few weeks before Apple announced the iPhone we found out that the name was already taken by Cisco Systems, however Apple still announced the iPhone. Didn't Apple do their homework to first determine if there was a trademark for the iPhone name? According to recent reports, Apple has 1 more week to respond to Cisco Systems Inc.'s trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to keep Apple from using the iPhone name. The companies had previously agreed to extend the deadline until Thursday night, however, Cisco Systems said Apple has until Wednesday (2/28/07) to respond to the lawsuit filed last month in San Francisco federal court. Cisco, whose Linksys division began shipping a line of iPhones last spring, has said it would allow Apple to use the trademarked name but wants both companies' phones to be able to communicate with each other. |  |
Apple has called the lawsuit "silly" and argued that it's entitled to use the iPhone name because the phones operate over different networks. Apple's works using cellular technology, and Cisco's operates over the Internet using a technology called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP.
We don't see the lawsuit as silly. We just can't understand why Apple would not see this issue coming. Any company would take offense to another company using their trademark name.
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