iPhone trademark troubles

Interesting news coming out this morning.  Cisco Systems owns the iPhone name.  Apple and Cisco have been in talks for a while about how their use of iPhone could co-exist without causing too much trouble to either company.  And finally, it looks like Apple dropped the ball and didn’t get a trademark agreement in place before releasing the iPhone and Cisco has filed suit.  Mark Chandler, Cisco’s SVP and General Counsel has a great blog post about what happened and why they took this path.

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