RSSCisco, Apple Still at the Negotiating Table
By Ed Oswald | Published February 16, 2007, 11:25 AM
For the second time since it filed suit against Apple last month, Cisco said late Thursday that it had agreed to give the Cupertino company another week to respond to the suit over the iPhone name.
Cisco sued Apple a day after it introduced the iPhone device, even though it had initially appeared as if the two sides were prepared to work out a deal. The networking equipment company acquired the trademark through its purchase of Infogear in 2000.
Infogear sold products under the 'iPhone' name for several years previous to the acquisition, and Cisco began selling a line of VoIP phones with the name beginning last year.
The new agreement gives Apple until next Wednesday, February 21, to respond to the suit. "Apple has asked Cisco for another extension on the deadline for Apple to respond to our lawsuit," it said in a statement. "Cisco is fully committed to using the extra time to reach a mutually beneficial resolution."
As part of any agreement to settle Cisco's claims, the company is not only looking to license the name out for the device, but also to allow the device to be interoperable with Cisco's products. An Apple spokesperson confirmed that both sides continued to discuss those issues.
Go Cisco... fight the... other power!
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For the second time ...Cisco ...agreed to give ...another week to respond to the suit ...
Yawn.
Like I give a %#&@* over the name of a $600 phone that I won't be buying.
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You apparently care enough to post a multi-line comment.
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Yeah, I care. I really really do.
But not enough to pay for a cell phone! ;-)
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Then, don't buy one. It's not as if not buying an iPhone means you've won some moral victory over Steve Jobs.
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What the heck are you talking about!
AS if I care about Steve jobs!!!
I even like the Mac.
You have completely missed the point!
How many times has Cisco given Apple 'just one more week'? Huh???
Keep up with the story!
This deadline has been extended multiple times. If Cisco had such an ironclad case they would not feel the need to keep extending the deadline, hoping instead for a cash settlement, they would simply go to court.
Only folks like you seem to carry about some personal issue that you seem to have with Jobs and Gates.
Personally, neither is my type and I don't lose sleep over what the two of them are doing in their personal lives.
My comment is simply on the dance of the 2 companies. It doesn't matter if I have a cell phone or not! But for the record, I do feel that spending ~$600 on a cell phone that plays lossy variants of MP3s is a waste of money for some trendy gimmick de jour. But my opinion of the fundamental issue (which is not Steve Jobs! DUH!) also wouldn't change if I had some silly notion that I couldn't live without it!
So thus far, the erudite discussion has been over whether I want an 'iPhone' or over some personal issue with Steve Jobs. Is this Entertainment Weekly's web site? My guess, based on precedent, is Teen Magazine's website.
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