Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Cisco Sues Apple over iPhone Trademark

Via xinhuanet.com -

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Cisco Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing its iPhone trademark after Apple unveiled a multimedia phone of the same name.

The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Cisco obtained the iPhone trademark in the year 2000 after it acquired a company called Infogear, which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone products for several years. Infogear's original filing for the trademark dates back to March 20, 1996.

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