Cisco go after "iPhone" name and sues Apple, but iphone.com lives on.
It is likely that even if Cisco wins the lawsuit and forces Apple to change the name of the iPhone to something else, it will not make much of a difference, at least according Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research. "If they have to name it something else, it won't sell any less than if it was called iPhone," he said.
People will end up calling it iPhone, any way. Cisco you are set to loose even if you win! So be good!
Cisco said it wanted to keep Apple from "infringing upon and deliberately copying and using" the trademark.
Linksys, a division of Cisco, has been selling wireless products with the iPhone name since early last year, with new products added to the line in December.
Analysts have called Apple's move into the rough-and-tumble cell phone market its most significant yet into the consumer electronics industry.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said: "We think this is silly. There are already several companies using the name iPhone for voice over Internet Protocol products.
"We're the first company to use the name iPhone for a cellular phone and if Cisco wants to challenge us on that we're very confident we'll prevail."
News Factor has a lengthier article. Follow the link below.
The funny part is the trademark iPhone registration. Earlier it was 1999, now according to news factor it 1996.
Mike Kovatch of Santa Rosa has owned the domain name www.iphone.com for 13 years, using it for his Internet Phone Co.
On Tuesday, when Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Kovatch temporarily shut his site after getting overwhelming traffic. He declined to discuss the matter in detail, saying, "We've had lots of people contacting us. We're staying in stealth mode until we know what's happening."
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Newsfactor article
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