Presenting the iPhone, not from Apple
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How many times have we referred to iPhone as an Apple product? Many times. Infact, the whole blogosphere voiced the same thing apart from this statement made by Kevin Rose. Anyways the real legit iPhone is from Linksys. Its a product line of VoIP products offered by them under the name iPhone (Internet Phone). Market analysts reckon that this could be detrimental to Apple’s interests because people have associated “i” with Apple products. But on the other hand, we say that Apple is smart and have never mentioned about their phone called as iPhone. It is the blogs and mainstream media which picked up the name and coined it for Apple. Nonetheless, Linksys is now enjoying the benefits of the hype created because of the word ‘iPhone’.
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Jan 13th, 2007 at 12:52 am
[...] Lee Curtis from Pinsent Masons says that a person in Europe can lodge a revocation application against a trade mark registration if the trade mark has not been used for the past five years. This goes against Cisco which launched its iPhone line on 18th December 2006 under the name of Linksys. The only way which can save the revocation of trademark in Europe is to probe that there were plans to resume the use of this trademark three months before the filing of revocation application. [...]