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VoIP provider Comwave beats Apple, Cisco to IPhone trademark

Neowin · Jan 15, 2007 05:54 EST · Hot! with 3 comments

Hold the phone Apple. Get in line Cisco. When it comes to Canada, it turns out Comwave Telecom Inc. has dibs on the IPhone brand name.

The Toronto-based company has been marketing a voice-over-Internet services under the registered trademark IPhone since 2004 and even has a wireless device called IPhone Mobile.

Comwave's president and chief executive, Yuval Barzakay, said Friday there's no reason for his company to change its plans just because the two big U.S. technology companies happen to want to use IPhone for their products as well.

"There's no confirmed reports that Apple will launch IPhone in Canada," he said in an interview. "And there's no trademark designation on their IPhone logo. So we're not quite sure where they're headed with that."