“Nagoya-based Aiphone chose this week to tell the world that it has been in talks with Apple since last summer about giving the US firm the right to use the ‘iPhone’ trademark in Japan,” J. Mark Lytle reports for TechRadar.
“The possible conflict arose because, although ‘Aiphone’ and ‘iPhone’ are spelled differently in English, the Japanese rendering of both is exactly the same,” Lytle reports.
“Aiphone says it has ‘reached a friendly agreement with Apple’ that allows both to use the Japanese version within Japan,” Lytle reports.
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