I recently had to return a purchased Archos video player with video-recording add-on hardware.
Videos of interview sessions (shot by us, using our video camera) were DRM-locked and could not be played back on a PC, Mac, etc. Anywhere outside the Archos player.
Vendor and Archos could offer no solution, though Archos acknowledged it was "a known issue". From what I gathered they simply don't plan on fixing it.
Not clear to me if the AVI's (apparently compressed with DivX) had Microsoft in the mix or not... But DRM successfully prevent me from using MY OWN VIDEO, and prevented a sale for Archos.
Even if Cisco sues Apple, I think they'd have to prove 'damages'. And the relative notoriety of the brands, and expectations of the public, do have an influence.
Apple owns the iMac, the iPod, iTunes, etc. and no one can hear "iPhone" without thinking Apple. So the brand equity is clearly in Apple's favor.
Cisco is damn-near infringing on Apple for using the name, trademark registration or not.
My guess is that no trial will ever be held, the market will concede that Apple owns the name and it will come out to the market as "iPhone".
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DRM locked my video
I recently had to return a purchased Archos video player with video-recording add-on hardware.
Videos of interview sessions (shot by us, using our video camera) were DRM-locked and could not be played back on a PC, Mac, etc. Anywhere outside the Archos player.
Vendor and Archos could offer no solution, though Archos acknowledged it was "a known issue". From what I gathered they simply don't plan on fixing it.
Not clear to me if the AVI's (apparently compressed with DivX) had Microsoft in the mix or not... But DRM successfully prevent me from using MY OWN VIDEO, and prevented a sale for Archos.