iPhone: Cisco vs Apple iphone :思科与苹果
If you were paying attention to all the hype building up to the如果你注意所有的炒作建设向 Apple iPhone announcement苹果iphone公布 on Tuesday, then you might recall the little snag concerning who actually owns the “iPhone” name.对周二,那么您可能还记得小阻拦,关于究竟是谁拥有“ iphone ”的名称。
Even though Apple unveiled the iPhone in San Francisco this week, Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc.,即使苹果推出iphone在旧金山的这个星期, Linksys公司的一个部门,思科系统公司, announced a product called the iPhone宣布了一项产品称为iphone on December 18th, 2006.关于2006年12月18日。 The Linksys iPhone is a Linksys的iphone是一个 Web-enabled telephone handset Web功能的电话听筒 capable of making calls over the Internet using voice over Internet protocol (VOIP).能够使互联网拨打电话,使用互联网协议语音电话( VoIP ) 。
So how can two different companies lay claim to the “iPhone” name?因此,如何能两个不同的公司声称“ iphone ”的名称? That’s the problem… they can’t.这是问题… …他们不能。
Linksys, actually owns the “iPhone” trademark because of a Cisco acquisition. Linksys的,其实拥有“ iphone ”商标,因为思科的收购。 A company called Infogear registered the “iPhone” name in 1996.一家名为infogear注册“ iphone ”的名称在1996年。 Then Cisco then absorbed the “iPhone” trademark when it acquired Infogear in the year 2000.然后,思科,然后吸收了“ iphone ”商标时,它获得的infogear在2000年。

So what happens now?所以现在会怎样? It’s all up to the lawyers.它的所有最多的律师。 Cisco filed a lawsuit against Apple yesterday in the US District Court in San Francisco.思科提起诉讼,苹果昨天在美国地区法院在旧金山。 Basically Cisco and Apple need to reach a settlement or Apple will have to call their iPhone something different like iChat Mobile.基本上,思科和苹果需要达成和解,或苹果电脑将不得不要求他们iphone的东西一样,不同的iChat移动。
According to the根据该 NY Post纽约州邮政 , Cisco thought it had reached a deal with Apple. ,思科认为已达成了协议,与苹果。 The two companies were reportedly engaged in heated talks over the “iPhone” name the past few weeks leading up to the Apple iPhone announcement.这两家公司据报被人从事激烈的谈判“ iphone ”的名称在过去数周领导到苹果iphone公布。
“We sent them final terms on Monday, but we never got approval back,” Cisco spokesman John Noh told The Post. “我们送他们最后的条件,周一,但我们从来没有得到批准,回, ”思科发言人John Noh相关告诉邮报。 “We’re very open to sharing the trademark. “我们很开放,分享了商标注册。 We made that clear.我们作出明确的。 But then they went ahead and used the name without our permission.”但后来他们到前面和使用的名称,没有我们的许可“ 。
Apple has been trying to get the iPhone name away from Cisco since 2001 when they苹果一直在试图获得iphone名称远离思科公司自2001年以来,当他们 first released the iPod首次公布的iPod . 。 Will Apple finally be successful?将苹果,终于成功呢? They obviously have something up their sleeve or they wouldn’t have halted talks with Cisco and just announced the iPhone this week.他们显然有自己的袖子或他们也不会停止会谈,与思科和刚刚宣布iphone在本星期。 It will be interesting to see what happens these next few months.它会很有意思看看会发生什么情况,这些未来数个月。
Apple plans on releasing the iPhone in June 2007.苹果计划就释放iphone在2007年6月。
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