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Originally Posted by Whiplash
Yeh but who pulled the sneaky on that one. iPod, iPhone ... kinda logical. It's like the Offspring saying they were going to call one of their albums "Chinese Democracy" because Axl Rose took so long to make an album of that name.
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But the name was trademarked in 1997 and a device using that name was created and sold by Infogear. When Cisco acquired Infogear they discontinued the product but they held on to the tradename.
Apple knew that Cisco owned that tradename before they announced their iPhone, writers at ZDNet assumed that Apple must have licensed the use of that name when Apple announced their product.