Thursday, 11 January 2007

Cisco to sue Apple over iPhone

Talk of the forums and the online news sites this morning is that Cisco are intending to sue Apple over their use of the iPhone name for their VOIP service announced earlier this week, which Cisco are claiming is a trademark of theirs.
It's inidicative of the litiguous nature of the US market that Cisco have filed a lawsuit and are then planning to meet Apple to negotiate, as indicated by the BBC story above.

In response, Apple are fanning the flames (from the BBC article):
"We think Cisco's trademark lawsuit is silly," Apple spokesman Alan Hely said. "There are already several companies using the name iPhone for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products."
This could be an entertaining one to watch from afar. If nothing else, maybe it'll divert Cisco's attention from buying people for a while.

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