SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

With great fanfare Apple launched iPhone today… but who owns the trademark for iPhone? According to the US patent and Trademark Office, Cisco had long owned the iPhone trademark - which then sold it to a company called InfoGear Technology. CORRECTION: Cisco bought InfoGear and currently owns the name… Last year a company called Teledex applied for a trademark on iPhone for a “Telephone that integrates a display and interactive abilities with an IP-based network to deliver both voice communication and graphic-based content and services”. Mmmmm.

Another company called Ocean Telecom Services applied for an iPhone trademark just a few months ago. Their description of use sounds like everything that Apple’s phone does. Could it be that Apple set up a fake company to hide it’s trademark application for iPhone??? That’s pretty sneaky! If so this is the legal description of the iPhone… You read it here first!

handheld and mobile digital electronic devices for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, faxes, electronic mail, and other digital data; MP3 and other digital format audio players; handheld computers, personal digital assistants, electronic organizers, electronic notepads; magnetic data carriers; telephones, mobile phones, computer gaming machines, videophones, cameras; prerecorded computer programs for personal information management, database management software, electronic mail and messaging software, paging software, database synchronization software, computer programs for accessing, browsing and searching online databases, computer software and firmware, namely operating system programs, data synchronization programs, and application development tool programs for personal and handheld computers; electronic handheld units for the wireless receipt and/or transmission of data that enable the user to keep track of or manage personal information; software for the redirection of messages, Internet e-mail, and/or other data to one or more electronic handheld devices from a data store on or associated with a personal computer or a server; and software for the synchronization of data between a remote station or device and a fixed or remote station or device; computer hardware and software for providing integrated telephone communication with computerized global information networks

Tags: Apple, iPhone

Popularity: 12%

Filed under: User Experience