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Cisco CEO: iPhone Lawsuit a "Minor Skirmish"
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 2:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Had Apple been willing to negotiate over the use of the term iPhone, the lawsuit over the name could have been avoided, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. He describes the lawsuit itself as a "minor skirmish," reports the International Herald Tribune.
Cisco acquired the trademark to the iPhone name in 2000, but didn't use it until releasing its VoIP phone product recently. Apple announced its iPhone - a smartphone product that does not use VoIP technology - during Macworld Expo 2007 in early January.
Mr. Chambers said that his company told Apple for five years that it was willing to license the iPhone name. "All we ask is that people respect our trademarks and our intellectual property. We would have traded that for just interoperability," he said.
Apple contends that it does not need to license the iPhone name from Cisco, claiming that several products already use the moniker.
During Apple's first quarter financial report, COO Tim Cook commented "We think the Cisco trademark lawsuit is silly... There are already several companies that use the name iPhone for voice over IP products, and we believe that Cisco's U.S. trademark registration is tenuous at best. We are the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cell phone, and if Cisco wants to challenge us, we're confident we'll prevail."
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