Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest networking equipment maker, sued Apple in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming that Apple’s iPhone violates its trademark.
Cisco is asking the court to forbid Apple from using the name “iPhone,” which Cisco has held a trademark on since 2000 and used to brand a line of its own Internet-enabled phones that began shipping last spring and officially launched three weeks ago.
Cisco indicated that Apple approached the company several years ago in an attempt to negotiate a license agreement to use the name. Talks evidently broke down mere hours before Steve Job’s MacWorld Keynote address announcing the new device.
Source: Yahoo! News
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