Cisco: iPhone Trademark Deal Is Close
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 1/9/2007 5:58:00 PM
Cisco Systems said it assumed that by announcing that its new music-playing mobile phone is named iPhone, Apple intends to abide by terms of a final agreement Cisco sent Apple regarding that trademarked name.
Apple -- which said Tuesday that it dropped the “Computer” part of its corporate moniker -- has made “numerous requests for permission to use Cisco’s iPhone trademark over the past several years,” Cisco said in a prepared statement, and the matter was extensively discussed recently.
Cisco added, “It is our belief that with their announcement today, Apple intends to agree to the final document and public statement that were distributed to them last night and that addressed a few remaining items. We expect to receive a signed agreement today.”
Cisco wouldn’t comment further on terms of the proposed agreement.
Cisco said it acquired the name along with a company called Infogear in 2000, and it has been marketing iPhone voice-over-Internet-protocol equipment via its Linksys division for more than one year.
The iPhone -- as announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the Macworld convention in San Francisco Tuesday -- uses the Macintosh operating system and touch-screen technology to let users surf the Internet and play digital content, including music, synchronized with home computers via Apple’s iTunes Music Store.
It will only work on Cingular Wireless’ network, it will start shipping in June and it will cost $499 for a 4-gigabyte version and $599 for an 8-GB model, AP reported.
“It’s just like an iPod,” AP quoted Jobs as saying. “Charge and synch.”
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