Tag archive: trademark infringement suit

Google is getting a little legal turbulence before its Chromebook laptops even launch. The California based search giant is being sued by Salt Lake City-based ISYS Technologies over trademark infringement. ISYS claims it has the rights to “Chromium” and apparently all chromium derived names; Chromebook happens to be too similar. ISYS Technologoies is pushing a Utah district court to stop Google and its various partners, including Amazon.com,… Read More

It was shaping up to be one of the biggest intellectual property feuds of 2007—and a distinctly black mark on the face of Apple's much-anticipated entry into the mobile phone market—but now it looks like the whole thing might just blow over. Apple and Cisco have agreed to suspend their legal dispute over the use of the iPhone name in hopes of working out an agreement. The dispute stems from Apple's much-publicized… Read More

Folks in the tech and communications industry were rather surprised when a product called the iPhone appeared back in mid-December—but it was a VoIP wireless handset from Cisco subsidiary Linksys, rather than a hybrid iPod/mobile phone from Apple. So when Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduced the company's forthcoming mobile phone/widescreen iPod/Internet communications device at Macworld yesterday under the name iPhone, more… Read More