Apple and Cisco agreed on iPhone Trademark
On Wednesday Cisco and Apple announced they had finally agreed their iPhone brand dispute.
The companies will share the "iPhone" name on both of their products (Apple's cellular and Cisco's Linksys-branded VoIP phone) in the world, according to a statement released yesterday.
In the statement both companies said that will "explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, consumer, and enterprise communications." Other terms of the agreement are confidential, the two companies said.
Many have suspected that Cisco wanted a piece of future iPhone profits in the form of interoperability. Last month, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said he expects to sell 10 million iPhones, which will sell for $499 and $599 respectively, in 2008.
Right after filing the trademark infringement suit, Cisco chief executive John Chambers said the company was not necessarily looking for money, but rather interoperability, or the ability for the iPhone to in some way work with a Cisco product.
Cisco is the world's largest maker of computer-networking equipment.
Apple still faces a potential iPhone trademark suit in Canada, where Comwave Telecom Inc. has used the iPhone brand since 2004 to sell Web-based phone service. Additionally, the Cupertino-based company may have to answer a similar lawsuit regarding a touch-screen patent from a UK-based company that develops and markets touch screen applications.
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