Saturday, January 27th 2007
Cisco iPhone patent challenged...by Canadian telecommunications provider
While Cisco is busy worrying about whether or not Apple will get to use the iPhone name, Canadian telecommunications provider Comwave is threatening to take legal action against Cisco if they do not change their own iPhone's name. Comwave has owned and been offering an iPhone service since 2004. The president of Comwave claims that "there has been a Comwave iPhone for years, and, (according to)Canadian law on first use, iPhone is ours". Comwave claims that both Cisco and Apple should have thought of other names for their various telecom devices.
Source:
CNET
9 Comments on Cisco iPhone patent challenged...by Canadian telecommunications provider
Suing seems to be hip now, let's all sue for something.
I broke my arm falling of a chair made by Nintendo, let's sue them :rockout:
If you sew in court... you'll be laughed at LOL
:roll: :laugh:
Thanks for pointing that out.. :o
So according to this first use law, say if i started using the name Vista as soon as Microsoft filed the patent, i could force them to change names in Canada?