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Cisco sues Apple over iPhone

SAN JOSE – Cisco said Wednesday it owns the trademark for the name iPhone and that Apple can't have it unless a deal is worked out. Cisco has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark. The phone was officially revealed Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and won't be in the U.S. market until June. Cisco obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after completing the acquisition of Infogear, which previously owned the mark...