The confusion behind the trademark thingy is turning out to be interesting or rather more confusing. A quick google search only helped to add to this pool of confusion. Found a site which says that the trademark belongs to apple, another one which says that it belongs to CISCO, plenty of others which gives related and different stories.
Ahh..I see, this is the perfect setup for yet another classic trademark war. With a speculated number of 11 million iphones( or aphones) hitting the streets by the end of 2008, I guess Apple wouldn’t mind spending some $$$ to buy a simple (i).
Anyways, I was just wondering how cool/uncool it would be if apple has to settle for the name (a)phone.
DISCLAIMER :
All the following names are completely from the wild and it’s got nothing to do with anything or anyone.
GS : Holy crap ! I saw the picture of a phone.
Daedalus : Big deal, I saw the video of a phone.
Tux : Really ! wow ..That’so extreme.
BT : huh ? Guys do you live in information age :/
5 responses so far ↓
daedalus // January 11, 2007 at 4:42 am
huh?
prestidigitator // January 11, 2007 at 4:43 am
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070110/151436.shtml
This was bound to happen!
I hope GS isnt me….what the heck …I hope GS IS me!
Jaebin // January 11, 2007 at 11:08 am
Just read that CIsco sued Apple for using the name “IPhone”,
bugtracker // January 11, 2007 at 11:38 am
@ deadalus, your confusion is understandable but do read the freq’n disclaimer.( \me ain’t that creative to come up with anything better)
@ prestidigitator, by GS I meant Good Samaritan, so can’t be remotely closely to you
@ Jaebin, yep there are plenty of stories about it in the net. But, I’m not sure how authentic they are.
bugtracker // January 11, 2007 at 11:48 am
Confirmed ! http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_011007.html
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