Legislative crud - iPhone trademark is apple’s.
rzwitserloot posted in me, apple on January 13th, 2007

I’m back from an excellent vacation, and more about this later.

However, for now, just a quick shine on the ongoing internet armchair debates on who really owns the “iPhone” name - apple, or cisco?

It’s apple’s, and the reason is simple. Fortunately, in this case, Cisco’s clear bungling of the case should make this a slam dunk for Apple’s legal team, but it’s a nice foray into why the whole patent & trademark office isn’t working.

zd.net’s sleuting - read it for all the details.

Now how come the very obvious nature of that sticker wasn’t caught by the USPTO?