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• With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name

  By Robert McMillan | 08 June, 2010 06:32

  Three years after being sued by Cisco Systems for giving its iPhone the same name as a Cisco product, Apple has taken another page from the Cisco playbook, renaming its iPhone operating system, iOS.

• CA changes name, again

  By Joab Jackson | 18 May, 2010 04:53

  For the second time in five years, CA has changed its name.

• Apple gets iPad name - just in time

  By Stephen Lawson | 27 March, 2010 11:32

  Just in time for the long-awaited iPad to go on sale, Apple has acquired the trademark on the iPad name from Fujitsu.

• Trademark issues could derail new gTLDs at ICANN meeting

  By Rebecca Wanjiku | 10 March, 2010 07:33

  Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

• Google wins partial victory in legal battle over trademarks

  By Paul Meller | 23 September, 2009 06:41

  Google appeared to have won a partial victory in its long-running legal battle with trademark owners Tuesday, when a senior judge at the European Court of Justice said the company hasn't infringed anyone's trademark rights by allowing advertisers to buy search keywords corresponding to those trademarks.

• Google sued by Indian portal for trademark infringement

  By John Ribeiro | 22 September, 2009 06:40

  Google has been sued for trademark infringement by an Indian portal company, Consim Info, which claims that the search company uses its trademarks to drive business to its competitors.