“A dispute between Apple Inc. and Toronto-based Comwave Telecom Inc. over the Canadian trademark rights to the name ‘iPhone’ has yet to be resolved, adding another barrier to the launch of Apple’s next-generation handheld device north of the border,” CBC News reports.
“Comwave, which markets a collection of voice-over-internet services and products under the name iPhone, has filed its opposition with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, or CIPO, to Apple’s trademark application for the proposed use of a handheld and mobile device called the iPhone in Canada,” CBC News reports.
“The dispute, currently under review, could further delay the Canadian arrival of the Apple iPhone — a handset with a touchscreen interface, sleek design and both Wi-Fi and cellular service that has already sold over one million units in the United States since its launch in June. It will hit store shelves in Britain and Germany in time for the holiday season,” CBC News reports.
Full article here.
Comwave Tele-who?
First…and I am 1 bummed Canuck!
…never mind…..
THIS F#$KING SUCKS.
I love living in and being a Canadian but shit like this always keeps us from getting shit on time.
Still no iTMS Movies or TV here either.
If they had the name first there’s a problem. But I’m curious about all this “i……” nomenclature. I can’t recall seeing anything prefixed with “isomething” before the original iMac. Can that be clarified?
Now we have the BBC’s iPlayer, clearly, and blatently cashing in on the kudos of iPod/iPhone/iMac/iTunes, etc. I’m not convinced Apple has a case, but I’m no lawyer. However, it strikes me as odd that manufacturers can simply add an “i” in front of any product they’re marketing and think it’ll somehow give it a caché and bump sales.
Any copyright lawyers around these boards?
And another thing. They should be beat for the name.
Just because you jump on the whole bandwagon naming everything iSomething doesn’t mean it is now yours.
This should be the same as grabbing the name http://www.ibm.tv when you aren’t ibm.
@ HueyLong.
You must have faster fingers than I.
What’s the problem? It’s only a billion dollars we are asking for
Passs the cost onto your lemmings.
Problem solved.
“Oh Terrance!”
“Yes Phillip”
“I got a rare Canadian iPhone in my ass”
“Oh let me see”
*FART*
chorus “Hahahahaha”
Anyone over 10 around these boards? (Aside from my 50+ year old self, of course.)
Anyone over 10 around these boards?
Yes I’m over 10, well over.
In fact I’m so old I fart dust. Here have some. *pooft*
Hahahahaha! Good one Terrance!
wow. screw apple’s iphone… i want comwave’s:
http://www.comwave.net/CDN/iPhone/iPhone_mobile.htm
Thanks for the link…
that phone is incredible! how have we not heard about it? and it came out *before* Apple’s iPhone!
Comwave: the sleeper Apple killer.
I live in Mississauga (just outside Toronto). This week alone I saw three iPhones. I spotted two of them on my university campus and one on the bus ride home. All of them were hacked to run on rogers and all of them were hacked to run third party apps. I even got a chance to play around with one, and am totally sold on it. I’ll buy it the second it comes up here. It’s more of a tiny tablet laptop than a cellphone. Apple needs to hurry up and release laptops and displays that utilize the iphone touch screen.
If apple does release an ultraportable computer (something to replace the 12 inch powerbooks/ibooks) it should be based on the iphone/ ipod touch and use the same ui.
The iPhone-mobile is sold out.
Does it even exist?
Why has no one ever heard of it.
Sounds like a scam to milk Apple of a few million.
Rogers is a waste of time anyway. Apple should just pass on Canada for now.
Come back with a G3 phone and let Telus and Bell outbid each other for it. That’s the only way to get unlimited data at a reasonable price.
Look at the buttons on that thing! And the display! Groundbreaking!
MW: makes, as in Comwave’s iPhone *makes* Apple’s iPhone look pitiful.
Comwave “may” own the name, but they have already lost the battle. 90% of the population, even in Canada, and whether they use Apple products or not, associate the iPhone name with the Apple product, never mind that the Comwave “phone” is in a completely different category.
But, as always, it will be fun to see how it all turns out. In the meantime, in the Great White North, we wait for the real iPhone – may it come sooner than later.
Comwave’s iPhone is just a landline phone service with perhaps some voip or skype additives. Only after the real iPhone went on sale in the U.S., did Comwave start advertising their iPhone “service”. I saw it on the back of buses in Toronto. Their way of saying “we were here first”, I guess.
Am I the only one who’s wondering why Cisco didn’t sue these guys, too? Or why they didn’t sue Cisco…?
Oh yeah, this is all about publicity.
I mean, duh.
-c
It’s BAD enough that I’m GAY. For Christ’s sake, don’t tell ANYONE that I’m CANADIAN.
I’m ready to serve you, master. Aaaaaand Satan!
Would you like some eggs? They’re fresh, right out of my body and on to your plate!
Danny, my eyes are killing me!
{kill danny}
@ChrissyOne
My thoughts exactly. But would it help Apple in any way if Cisco sued Comwave for the name (assuming they have the advantage, of course).
Lawyers in the house?
I’d like to tell you… about the Dave’s I know.