25 Jan 2007
iPhone trademarks: the real issues

A really good primer on the vagaries of trademark law, and why Apple may have a case after all.

Apple's iPhone announcement and Cisco's iPhone trademark lawsuit has brought the iPhone moniker into the spotlight. But other companies also own and use iPhone trademarks, and market and sell their iPhone products. Mark Rasch explains how U.S. trademark law works and the real issues at play in this highly publicized trademark dispute. This is sort of 'reverse trademark confusion'.

(link) [The Register]

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