Cisco Lost Rights to iPhone Trademark Last Year?

An anonymous reader writes "An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it."

Old News

[Anonymous Coward]

iKnow that

--Steve

simple solution

[gEvil (beta)]

Cisco should just rebrand their iPhone product line and call them Apple Phones.

Re:simple solution

[Megane]

I like "Cisc-o-Fone" myself. It's got a retro sound to it. "Disco Stu! Loves his Cisc-o-Fone!"

Re:Name stealing nothing new.

[Lars T.]

If Apple can't come up with an own good name they just take someone elses. This isn't exactly the first time.

Apple - Sued by Apple records
Unix - Sued by Open Group
iPhone - Sued by Cisco

idiot - sued by you.

Re:Name stealing nothing new.

[Anonymous Coward]

>idiot - sued by you.

iDiot

Err: 1D10T

Re:simple solution

[TomHandy]

I have a hard time believing that he would ever make an obvious promotional statement like that. Don't you know that Disco Stu doesn't advertise?

Re:Looks great but

[Dunbal]

Can I Make a Beowulf Cluster of those iPhones ?

      Would that make it an iBeowulf Cluster, or a Beowulf iCluster? Damn, I'm so confused! Who do we sue next?

So that's it!

[BillGatesLoveChild]

If this checks out, Youch! Everyone was wondering what was behind Apple so brazenly using the iPhone trademark. Cringely wrote a whole piece on it http://pbs.org/cringely [pbs.org] but no one guessed something as simple as this!

Memo to self: Don't play Poker with Steve Jobs.

Why aPhone?

[Bright Apollo]

Y'know, seeing as how it's an Apple product, they can rebrand the whole of their catalog (usher in the new era of Apple Inc). That way you can own aMac and aPhone and aServer with aWirelessLAN. Of course, you could also get aLife...

-BA

Too Late Buddy

[thedbp]

1. Unclear, unjustified war in a sovereign nation - Check.
2. National obsession with dance at the expense of expanded consciousness - Check.
3. Horrific fashion - Check.
4. Youth culture co-opted by advertising - Check.
5. Government stomping all over personal liberty - Check.

Sorry, dude, you're too late. The Seventies are back in force.

Re:You Know What This Proves?

[Emetophobe]

The existence of the iTimeMachine.

So thats where those backdated stocks came from...