Cisco May Sue Apple Over New Apple iPhone

Cisco executives at the John Chambers keynote at CES 2007 claim that they own the name iPhone.

“This was registered by Cisco nearly 7 years ago and was recently rolled out by Cisco subsidary Linksys for their WiFi phone which is labelled iPhone”. they said.

Cisco trademarked the term “iPhone” in 1999 as “computer hardware and software for providing integrated telephone communication with global information networks.

After being told that Apple had today launched a new mobile phone labelled iPhone the Cisco executive said “I am certain we will be consulting our legal advisors. This will be a sensitive issue”. they said