“Cisco [has] announced that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in California against Apple, seeking to prevent Apple ‘from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco’s registered iPhone trademark,'” Ashby Jones blogs for The Wall Street Journal.
Jones reports, “With its lawsuit, Cisco is seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying Cisco’s iPhone trademark… 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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