Cisco and Apple have announced that they have agreed to BOTH use of the trademark iPhone. In the terms of the agreement, “both companies have the right to use the name iPhone for their products around the world“, said the head of the press service of Cisco Systems in the CIS Alexander Palladin.

He said that both companies recognize the prior ownership of the trademark and waive any claims to each other about it.

Cisco and Apple will explore the possibility of cooperation in the field of security, individual communications and corporate communications. Other conditions of the agreement are not known at this time.

Cisco has had the right to the trademark iPhone since 2000, under the company name Infogear. The agreement allows Apple to label and sell products under the brand iPhone for a number of years.

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