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Originally Posted by Burninator
This whole thing is dumb because cleary iPhone by Cisco is clearly jumping on the bandwagon of products that start with i, which was started by Apple with the iPod. It would be interesting if Apple could have a countersuit against Crisco for using the likeness of the name.
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Except that, according to the article: " San Jose's Cisco said it has owned the trademark for the iPhone name since June 2000." and the iPod wasn't released until 2001. So, IF those timelines are correct then Cisco didn't jump an any bandwagons.
Although I have little doubt that Cisco is attempting to get as much out of Apple as possible. I also feel a little bad for the guy who owns iphone.com (and has owned it for 13 years - his company is Internet Phone Co).
Edit: Anyone else read the webcomic PvP? Their iPhone strip was pretty good. link
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Last edited by Bobblehead; 01-11-2007 at 10:26 AM.
Reason: Fixed PvP link.
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