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It'll be an interesting battle
I seem to remember that years ago Bayer had the TM for
"Aspirin". Unfortunately the public considered all
aspirins produced by various companies to be aspirins
and Bayer lost the TM. The public perception was the
deciding factor.

With the new (Apple) iPhone the public and the media
have been calling the device an iPhone for a few years.
There would be a mountain of media releases calling it
an iPhone and millions of posts on boards like this
calling it the iPhone. That may bode well for Apple, but
Cisco would have a hard time convincing a judge that it
was just a coincidence that they released their iPhone a
month before Apple did. A blind man running for the
bus can see that Cisco is riding on Apple's coattails, just
as he would be able to see that the public has perceived
the iPhone as the device that Apple, not Cisco, has
released.

Somehow I think Cisco will make more profits by simply
"selling" the name to Apple than they will from their
iPhone. The day that Apple publicly changes the name
to the iPod phone is the day Cisco will loose that
opportunity for profits.
Posted by: Ken_z   Posted on: 01/10/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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It'll be an interesting battle  Ken_z | 01/10/07
Did you read the story?  the_seb | 01/11/07
Who are Jobs? teachers?  Vily Clay | 01/10/07
Best post ever  tic swayback | 01/11/07
How many loved brutal Hitler in Germany or Stalin in the USSR?  Vily Clay | 01/11/07
But the vast majority here love you too Vily  tic swayback | 01/12/07
And the majority is you and Laff? You?re No1 lovers to debate with me. (NT)  Vily Clay | 01/12/07
Message has been deleted.  Vily Clay | 01/13/07
Your "history" knowledge is pretty close to nil  orangemike | 01/16/07
Message has been deleted.  Vily Clay | 01/16/07
Message has been deleted.  Vily Clay | 01/21/07
How big is in Apple orangemike that ZDNet keep him from looking stupid?  Vily Clay | 02/18/07
Painful truth-fact of similarity between Jobs & the tyrants hurts a lot (NT  Vily Clay | 01/16/07
End result  tic swayback | 01/11/07
... wait for MS! ..  Reverend MacFellow | 01/11/07
Reverend  Moosehouse | 01/11/07
I hope they get nailed...  lenohere | 01/11/07
Jobs iBalls  justanitguy | 01/11/07
Oh the comedy continues  Boot_Agnostic | 01/12/07

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