From: mike 

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:09:27 -0500, "Dave Ings"
 wrote:

>Actually this theory (open standards culture company vs closed/proprietary
>culture company) was explored in a column in either CNet or the WSJ on
>Wednesday, I forget which.
>
>However at work today we concluded over lunch :-) that all in all this
>trademark is worth more to Apple than to Cisco so at the end of the day
>Apple and Cisco will settle with a large payment to Cisco, cultural issues
>aside.


Cisco may have already lost European rights:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/cisco_apple_iphone_trademark_spat/

and US rights:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=236


  /m

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