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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
I'd have to side with Cisco on this one. Though people anticipated Apple to come out with an iPhone, Cisco DID come out with it first. Also, how fair would it be if Apple tried to trademark anything with "i-" anything or the term "pod". They may have made the terms popular, but they certainly don't own them.
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Except for the whole fact that they haven't actually ENFORCED the trademark yet, making it all null and void, such as
here and
here.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/10/ilawsuit/
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Apple spokesman Steve Dowling called the Cisco lawsuit “silly,” adding there are several companies using the term iPhone for VOIP products, and Cisco’s trademark is “tenuous at best.” “We’re the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cellphone,” he said. “If Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we’re very confident we’ll prevail.”
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