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Makers of "ipHone" sue Apple. The law is not case sensitive.

erik-rasmussen.com — The attorney leading the case for Mage explains that “Apple’s big mistake here was to assume that the trademark search functionality at the US Patent Office was case insensitive. They searched for ‘iPhone’ and only found Cisco’s expired trademark. But if they had searched for ‘ipHone’, they would have found Mage’s trademark.”

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  • smallappt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is turning really silly

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