By Ellen Sheng Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) may have beaten Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) to the iPhone name, but it seems Apple will gain the rights to the trademark, after all. Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, announced earlier Tuesday that the company's long-anticipated phone product will be called iPhone. The name is familiar to those who remember that Cisco unveiled a line of Internet-based phone devices called iPhone just last month. Cisco said it has been in talks with Apple about the trademark and expects a signed agreement later Tuesday. "Given Apple's numerous requests for permission to use Cisco's iPhone trademark over the past several years, and our extensive discussions with them recently, it is our belief that with their announcement today Apple intends to agree to the final document and public statement," the company said in a statement Tuesday. Cisco said it distributed the documents to Apple on Monday night and expects to receive a signed agreement. Speculation about Apple's phone product has swirled for months, and it has long been assumed that Apple would name its product "iPhone." Apple has a long line of products starting with "i" such as iPod, iTunes, iCal, iPhoto and so forth. The company filed for the iPhone trademark in Australia and Singapore but didn't have the trademark in the U.S. Cisco's patent on the iPhone name dates back to 1996, when the name was owned by Infogear, a tech firm Cisco acquired in 2000. An Apple spokesman could not be immediately reached to comment. -By Ellen Sheng, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5863; ellen.sheng@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires 01-09-07 1403ET Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 14:03 010907
want to make a sure buck? go register all the i-something name under the sun, someone will beat a path to you with $$$ years later.
NO NOT WHATS WRONG WITH iphone ! WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLES MINDS ? AAPL WAS A FAD 22 YRS. AGO AND WAS REVIVED 2 1/2 YRS. AGO AND WILL CRASH AND BURN ! SIGNED THE WIZARD ! BGP P.S. ANYBODY YOUNGER THAN 40 YRS. OLD ON E.T. SHOULD BE ASSKICKED . THEY ARE TOO YOUNG AND STUPID !
I may be young and stupid but I am not... what was the third thing you said? Anyone who owns an ipod and uses it almost every day knows that apple will be around for a while. Great products, even better marketing.