Cisco Lost the iPhone Trademark

So it seems Cisco did not keep the trademark for the iPhone name. Why? No use. If you don’t produce a product with the named trademark you lose it. Makes sense right? Anyway it seems that Cisco may have tried to dupe or at least be extremely aggressive with the USPTO or US Patent and Trademark Office by renewing the iPhone trademark with a product that wasn’t yet called iPhone but rather the Linksys CIT200 and the Linksys CIT310.

Tom Keating was the first to have realized this as he has actually reviewed the products Cisco claims were called iPhone. Tom mentions in his blog there is no reference to the term iPhone on the boxes or manuals. If this is true and we aren’t all missing something obvious, Cisco may have lost the trademark on iPhone.

Does this mean Apple who has the name iPhone registered through a shell company could try to stop Cisco from using the name both domestically and internationally? This story is getting more and more interesting by the minute.

The opinions and views expressed in comments, blogs, etc. are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of TMC, TMCnet, or its editors. TMCnet reserves the right to edit, delete, or otherwise make changes to the content that appears on these pages at its own discretion and as it deems necessary.

January 13, 2007 6:34 PM |

1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks

1 Comment

Moshe Maeir | January 15, 2007 4:41 PM | Reply

Actually Vocaltec was the first to use the iphone name! http://flatplanetphone.com/wordpress/?p=30

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Notify me of new comments?

Today

Rich Tehrani tweeted, "RT @VonReventlow: Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup – GigaOM http://bit.ly/9vOXGb via http://bit.ly/btrcXW" 2010-02-09T21:39:16Z 2010-02-09T21:39:16Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "@CaliLewis A copy of facebook/twitter/foursquare. Are we supposed to use this or Wave? The strategy is confusing and uncoordinated" 2010-02-09T21:35:07Z 2010-02-09T21:35:07Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "RT @tmcnet: AppTek Announces Hybrid Machine Translation System http://tmcnet.com/23138.1 #ch564" 2010-02-09T21:22:48Z 2010-02-09T21:22:48Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "China Snubs Google Again http://post.ly/N1RF" 2010-02-09T21:21:10Z 2010-02-09T21:21:10Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "RT @petegoold: Growth of Foursquare Shows Future May Be Location-Based: http://pitch.pe/45716" 2010-02-09T21:19:43Z 2010-02-09T21:19:43Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "RT @MobileMartyr: Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share http://ow.ly/15DeJ @purpleforge" 2010-02-09T21:14:42Z 2010-02-09T21:14:42Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "comScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share http://post.ly/N1M8" 2010-02-09T21:13:51Z 2010-02-09T21:13:51Z
Rich Tehrani tweeted, "RT @VonReventlow: iPad -- Evolution or Revolution?: The pendulum is swinging back toward the author and the iPad is ... http://bit.ly/bJ ..." 2010-02-09T21:12:49Z 2010-02-09T21:12:49Z

More...

judy: worst bed I ever purchased. more back pain than ever, read more
Peter Radizeski: They may have good handsets but their network leaves a read more
James May: I have a sleep number, and I love it. The read more
Mike Ross: I love your comments especially: Speed: It is better to read more
Rich Tehrani: Thanks Bill, we try :-) Without a doubt I believe read more
Rich Tehrani: You will -- we will do it again -- demand read more
Bill Kelly: Nice write up on the tech trade show industry and read more
xmlscott: Neither you nor the original post have gone to the read more
roderickm: The Startup Camp:Telephony session was the highlight of ITExpo for read more
Rich Tehrani: You are right that Obama has not advocated equal distribution read more