Apple and Cisco share iPhone name
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Apple and Cisco Systems agree to share the iPhone trademark, allowing both firms to use the name.
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THE iPhone has hit the market - not the widely anticipated Apple device, but one from rival computer firm Linksys.   Cisco, Linksys' parent, has owned the iPhone trademark since 2000 when it bought Infogear Technology, which registered it in 1996.
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Apple dropped "computer" from its name, but not from its identity.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems has given Apple a further extension on the deadline to respond to its lawsuit concerning the iPhone name, the company said late Thursday. Apple wasÂ hit with a trademark infringement lawsuitÂ from Cisco Systems the day after itÂ unveiled a new cell phoneÂ under the name iPhone at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Cisco says its Linksys division owns the trademark on "iPhone" and filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court for Northern California seeking an injunction against Apple using the name. On Thursday evening Cisco said it had agreed to a request from Apple for more time. "Cisco has agreed to give Apple an extension until Wednesday, Feb. 21," the company said in a brief statement. "Cisco is fully committed to using the extra time to reach a mutually beneficial resolution." When Cisco sued Apple on Jan. 10 it revealed that the two companies had been talking about the iPhone name for about two years and were close to a deal on Jan. 8, which was the day before Macworld Expo. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs went ahead on Jan. 9 and announced the phone he did so before an agreement between the two companies had been reached and that pushed Cisco to file its lawsuit. AÂ previous extension was granted AppleÂ by Cisco on Feb. 1 at which time Cisco said it wanted an agreement on "trademark use and interoperability." Those words lend credibility to earlier media reports that Cisco might back-down over the trademark issue if the iPhone were made compatible with its networking gear. Just how serious Apple views the issue or how close the current talks are to a deal is unknown. A few days after being hit with the lawsuit Natalie Kerris, Apple's Director of music public relations, told IDG's Macworld that the company thought the lawsuit is "silly." Linksys launched its iPhoneÂ in late December, just as buzz was building about the possibility of a cell phone and music player combo from Apple coming at Macworld. The Linksys iPhone is a cordless telephone with base station that attaches to the Internet. It means calls can be made from the handset over Skype without the need for a personal computer. Apple's iPhone is a GSM cell phone married with an iPod that runs on Apple's Mac OSX operating system. The phone is due to be released in the U.S. in the middle of this year through a deal with Cingular Wireless. Models for international markets are due out sometime after the U.S. launch.
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Cisco Systems says it is giving more time to respond to a lawsuit that claims Apple infringed on the iPhone trademark.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco Systems Inc. said late Thursday that it has given Apple Inc. nearly another week to respond to its trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to halt Apple from using the "iPhone" name on its much-hyped new iPod-cellular phone device.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have settled a dispute over rights to use the iPhone name. Under terms of the agreement, both companies have the right to use the name. In addition, Cisco and Apple have agreed to "explore opportunities for interoperability" in security and communications technologies for consumers and business users, they said in a brief statement. Other terms of the agreement, which heads off a lawsuit filed by Cisco over rights to the iPhone trademark, were not disclosed. Cisco last month sued AppleÂ in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for infringing its iPhone trademark with the announcement of a cellular handset that bears the same name. At that time, Cisco said it obtained rights to the iPhone name through its 2000 acquisition of Infogear, which had a product line called iPhone. In addition, Cisco's Linksys division last year began selling a line of dual-mode cordless phones, called iPhone, that let users make VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls. Cisco's lawsuit against Apple came shortly after CEO Steve Jobs last month announced the company's own iPhone cellular handsetÂ at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. That announcement was made without an agreement with Cisco to use the iPhone name, a company spokesman said at the time. Prior to Jobs' iPhone announcement, Apple and Cisco had discussed terms of an agreement for Apple to use the name. Those discussions continued after the iPhone announcement and the filing of the lawsuit, ultimately resulting in the settlement.
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Network equipment maker Cisco Systems  Inc. said it agreed to give Apple Inc. more time to respond to  the lawsuit it filed over the "iPhone" trademark, extending  negotiations until February 21.
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Wireless technology firm InterDigital Inc  said it signed a seven-year licensing agreement to provide technology for Apple Inc's  first cell phone, the iPhone.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have agreed to share the "iPhone" name, but both companies are tightlipped about what future products might come from the resulting deal to collaborate on "interoperability" between the companies' products.
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Cisco Systems and Microsoft have announced a collaborative effort designed to bridge a divide between their emerging network access-control architectures.
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Apple will host a series of iPhone developer talks across the United States.
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TOKYO: Fujitsu Ltd and Cisco Systems Inc have agreed to form a strategic alliance, focusing on routers and switches that will enable businesses to build advanced Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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For the second time since it filed suit against Apple last month, Cisco said late Thursday that it had agreed to give the Cupertino company another week to respond to the suit over the iPhone name.
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Apple Inc. has another week to respond to Cisco Systems Inc.'s trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to keep Apple from using the name "iPhone" on its much-hyped cell phone-music player.
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Agree to share iPhone name Both Apple and Cisco will have products on the market called "iPhone" at the same time, without suing each other. Instead, they are going to work towards interoperability in other areas to prove they are now best friends.â¦
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Fujitsu and Cisco Systems, both high end hardware manufacturers are joining forces. Earlier, Fujitsu bundled their strengths with popular phone company Siemens.