Apple just bought iphone.com

Iphone is the registered trademark of Apple..............
If it takes the legal way.....no one can stop them or can they?

 

Cisco owns the trademark, not apple.

 

the guy registered it in 1995, I'm pretty it wasn't TM back then

 

He will lose it if he get revenue from it

 

thats all fuked up coz the rich just get richer- ARg !!!

 

yeah, thats the downside otherwise it would be cool selling iphones through some aff program from iphone.com

 

Hmm great for him no he has money

 

Yes, Their (Apple's Lawyers), they certainly would not want to indulge in a certain lost case. for two very obvious reasons

1) Apple doesnt own the Trademark for iPhone, Cisco does.
2) iPhone.com was registered way back in 1995, way before than apple even thought of making something called iPhone.

So they didnt have a single chance out of 10 millions to win the case.
Thats why they negotiated with the owner of that domain

Not really, That depends on how does he get the revenue, he would have lost it certainly, had he tried spoofing the site as if it was associated with apple or it;s product iPhone.

Otherwise No!!

 

Revenue from most source (ads and stuff) is good enough for Apples file a suit for "bad faith" of use.

If it is like the Nissan.com (a computer company that is established for long time), that's another story

also it depend how far each side want to go, i won't go through all those stress to fight for it. Settlement is the best

 

Definitely I would love a settlement for 10M dollars too

 

Damn he is lucky, crazy he made the domain in 95'..

 

x,xxx,xxx kudos to him!

 

I guess some people just get lucky - Bet he never though he would sell the for $10million or so.

 

thats nuts, I wonder if any of my domains will strike it rich!

 

I'm going to register i(everything I can think of).com...

Crap, everything is taken... even iWalrus.com and iPeanut.com ... Jeez...

 

If u do it, you are a domainer already

 

How would he know about the iphone in 1995?

 

I suspect Apple (or Cisco, depending on who you think will ultimately get the rights to the name) might have a legal case if it was bought by someone now, after the Apple iPhone is out.

The guy who registered it originally predated either Apple or Cisco's claim so I doubt they could sue him over it.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer and don't play one on TV so this is all pure speculation

 

gah i wish one of my domains right now would be worth that much in the years to come. Lol.

 

Now that I thought about it, I'm surprised Apple didn't make a much smaller offer before anyone knew about the iPhone...