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Updated 4/15/2010




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By cdwilliams1 on 4/15/2010 4:31:25 PM , Rating: 2
reminds me of when Apple stole the name iPhone from linksys sorta kinda. Linksys had products already released with the name

Actually, Cisco, who owns Linksys, had bought a company back in 2000 or 2001 (I forget which) that had a product called the iphone. Upon acquisition, the acquired company had it's entire product line dropped. The name "iphone" was trademarked, not copyrighted, which means if you don't put out a product with that name and assert your trademark, you lose it. Having never released an iphone themselves and with the intervening years in between the acquisition Cisco/Linksys forfeited the name.

When Apple tried to work with them for naming right to be in the free and clear (even though they were on pretty solid legal ground), Cisco stonewalled and demanded a bunch of money. Apple refused. Cisco then slapped the iphone name on an existing VoIP product it had. The iphone name only appeared on the Cisco website, it did not ever appear on the Cisco VoIP phone itself, its packaging, or its documentation. It was a last ditch effort by Cisco to keep the name and try to extract money from Apple.

When the whole thing went to the lawyers, all that happened was that Cisco agreed to let Apple use the name for their cell phone devices, and Apple agreed to let Cisco use the name for any cordless phone handset products.

ok well here is a linksys to a iphone product they released

Here is another the second one I bought with the Iphone name


