Cisco sues Apple for using iPhone

Apple's much awaited iPhone was released in Macworld 2007 at San Fransisco. But it has brought along with it a lawsuit against Apple, the reason Cisco Systems claim to have registered the name "iPhone" as a trademark for their VOIP related products.

Cisco is asking the court to forbid Apple from using the name as it was registered in 2000 itself. Cisco and Apple are said to have negotiated for this name for over two years now, but Cisco claim the negotiations failed and hence Apple is not supposed to use the name "iPhone".

Although, Cisco VOIP products and Apple's iPhone are completely different, the lawsuit looks "silly", but still it may hold good. Cisco also have plans to move into the consumer electronics market, which means they may also plan to come to the front-end market like converting their VOIP products as phones, in which case the products fall in same category as Apple's iPhone.