Apple deserved to lose... they picked this fight to begin with! The initial cease and desist lawsuit against iFone was a real scumbag move by Apple.
Reminds me of Monster Cable suing every company that used the term "Monster" for anything!
Apple is nothing more than a trademark troll, plain and simple.
Yet another dumb ruling. iPhone is "different" than ifone... Duh!!
"These fools"? They registered in 2003, then Apple sued in 2009 and they fought back. It doesn't seemed like they were going at Apple in the first place.
This is too funny.
Apple just can't win. Someone there needs to trademark the i prefix in every country so this doesn't happen again.
Why are other companies using the i prefix for any of their products? What does the i even stand for anyway?? Did someone Apple come up with "i-anything" before Apple (other than Cisco IOS, which stands for something else entirely)?
Seriously, anyone know?
the iFone trade name was registered in Mexico in 2003, some four years before Apple did so.
Don't know about anyone else but companies sticking and "i" in front of their product/company name leaching off Apples success deserves everything they get.
Sometimes bringing a lawsuit is just a stupid thing to do. Mea Culpa.
Not much room for confusion with this one, visually anyway. Besides, iFone was first to the party. Would have been better to enter into an agreement with them, back before the iPhone launched, now it's gonna cost (is costing) a bundle.
I don't think prefixes should be trademark-able. Microsoft could trademark x-, Apple i-, etc.This is too funny.
Apple just can't win. Someone there needs to trademark the i prefix in every country so this doesn't happen again.
Why are other companies using the i prefix for any of their products? What does the i even stand for anyway?? Did someone Apple come up with "i-anything" before Apple (other than Cisco IOS, which stands for something else entirely)?
Seriously, anyone know?
Apple is nothing more than a trademark troll, plain and simple.
Apples success of iProducts in 2003? What was there, only like an iMac or something. iPhone didn't come out until 2007. How is this leaching off Apple's success? Please stop trying to defend corporate companies when they are in the wrong.
Pull out of Mexico, Apple. Take the moral high ground. That is what Steve would have done!
Apple deserved to lose... they picked this fight to begin with! The initial cease and desist lawsuit against iFone was a real scumbag move by Apple.
Reminds me of Monster Cable suing every company that used the term "Monster" for anything!
Apple is nothing more than a trademark troll, plain and simple.
Yeah, and the iMac was ****, eh?
No, it isn't simple as that. First, Apple does have products and they do sell them, so they're not a troll.
Secondly, in some countries including USA, if Apple does not fight to protect its trademark, they forfeit their trademark automatically. Apple fought in Mexico to protect its original "iPhone" trademark. 'iFone' is now counter-suing Apple because "iPhone" sounds similar to their 'iFone' trademark.
Apple simply preemptively sued iFone because they knew iFone will eventually sue (they're required to or they'll lose against Apple automatically).
It was registered in 2003, when Apple wasn't that popular. And since when did Apple also own the letter i? No other company can use i in its name?Don't know about anyone else but companies sticking and "i" in front of their product/company name leaching off Apples success deserves everything they get.