money.canoe.ca — Apple went so far as to create a phoney company - called Ocean Telecom Services LLC - to get around Cisco's trademark, Cisco alleges. The company listed its attorney as James Johnson. His contact information was an e-mail address from Google's free web-based Gmail service. Apple is using to comment about Ocean Telecom.
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Closed AccountJan 12, 2007
funky...yeah...what do you think would happen if Microsoft had called the Zune the Microsoft iPod?
nuniJan 12, 2007
It seems that Cisco missed a few important deadlines:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/Cisco_lost_rights_to_iPhone_trademark_last_year_experts_say">http://digg.com/apple/Cisco_lost_rights_to_iPhone_trademark_last_year_experts_say</a>
hellotylerJan 13, 2007
As long as it is legal, who gives a s**t ? Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. Don't even begin to act like you don't know how things work in the business world, Cisco.
1598741Jan 13, 2007
No, I think you got it wrong.
gmark13Jan 13, 2007
Uh lets see..Steve Jobs has no clue and doesn't get a copyright.Who the not looking forward guru now?DUH!
cquinndJan 13, 2007
Then why was Apple still in negotiations to use the trademark up to the day before the Macworld announcment?
fishytechJan 13, 2007
If anyone is actually checking manufacturing dates, the original iMac came out in '96. Bondi Blue.
davidhalkoJul 2, 2008
I think you made the point.Apple released the iMac in 1998 and the idea of prefixing an "i" to a piece of a product/company name was ripped off by HP later, when they released the iPaq in April 2000.<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHPtoTctDY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHPtoTctDY</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ</a>Apple and Apple related products first started trademarking the i"stuff" - no one else did it before that. You believe it was related to the "internet craze in the late 90's" - because Apple produced the iMac and that is what they marketed it towards.A company needs to protect their trademarks, if it is not adequately advertised, if it is not adequately well known, then they could lose legal protections.Apple did the same thing with Microware's OS-9 when Microware did not adequately protect their trademark. People hear the term OS-9 and they often think of Mac OS-9 instead of Microware OS-9.While I disagree with the way Apple did it, I think Apple has a pretty interesting case with Cisco.