iPhone Delayed in Canada Due To Existing Canadian iPhone

In the U.S., the iPhone trademark is owned by Cisco. Apple chose to damn the legal torpedoes here, but knew it would ultimately get a deal out of the Routermakers General. Apple did manage to get the trademark elsewhere, with filings in Singapore and Australia bearing fruit. In Canada, however, the mark has long been owned by Comwave, a telecoms company in Ontario. Apple tried and failed to register the name there—but Comwave, unlike Cisco, won't play ball on sharing the name.

“The force they put into marketing would quickly make the brand Apple’s and not ours,” Comwave president Yuval Barzakay told the CBC, adding that it would effectively be hijacked by any such agreement. "Co-existence is not possible."

What he's saying, of course, is that is that everything has its price, but only if you want to buy it. And he's right: can you see Apple renaming the iPhone, or missing out on a market the size of California?

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Cisco CEO makes peace with Apple over Iphone

NOT SO LONG AGO, the naming of the Iphone provoked a litigious sideshow to the main event of the release of Apple’s all-conquering device. Now, our Good News department can report, peace is breaking out.

Cisco was cross that Apple announced the Iphone even though it had not settled discussions over rights to the name, which belonged to its subsidiary Linksys, the company claimed. This being a legal story involving IT firms, Apple’s response was predictably churlish, saying Cisco’s position was without merit and even dismissing the spat as "silly".

Later, the firms shook hands and had a metaphorical beer, and now hard feelings seem to have gone.

Speaking at the Salesforce.com conference in San Francisco today, Cisco CEO John Chambers helped demonstrate the Iphone to show a voice portal.

"Is that a Cisco iPhone or an Apple Iphone?” he quipped, before graciously admitting “It is an amazing device."

Read it @ The Inquirer

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