Apple has a penchant for landing into trouble for using names. Firstly there was the Apple v/s Apple lawsuit. .
Now it has landed in soup for the use of the word iPhone.
Cisco is suing Apple for the use of the word "iPhone".
Cisco obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 when it acquired Infogear, a small Redwood City, California, start-up that developed consumer devices that allowed people to easily access the internet without a PC. Infogear had actually registered the iPhone trademark in March 1996. Cisco's home-networking division, Linksys, has been using the iPhone trademark on a new family of VoIP phones since early last year, Cisco said. And last month, Linksys expanded the iPhone family with additional products.
In general, when companies try to make products, they tend to keep it as simple and meaningful as possible and thats when you discover that all the simple and meaningful words are taken!!!
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