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January 26th, 2007, 13:35 GMT · By Iohana Georgescu

LG to Sue Apple Over The iPhone as Well?

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After many months of rumors, Apple finally revealed the iPhone and, although making many customers happy, the phone's announcement also made quite a few companies sue them.

There's no doubt about the fact that Cisco, the one that holds the trademark for the iPhone name, has a pretty good reason to sue Apple, but what's interesting, to say the least, is the fact that LG seems to be preparing to sue Apple as well.

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Korean manufacturer claims that it submitted patents for a keyless mobile device that relied on a touchscreen interface to control the phone and, to simplify things, it looks like LG is not exactly thrilled with the similarity between its Prada phone and the iPhone.

If Apple's phone demonstrates a too close functionality to the LG's soon to be released Prada phone, it looks like Apple's going to get sued again. And looking back, there were few different phone manufacturers that came out with similar looking phones, so is the similarity between these two really a coincidence?

When looking at the iPhone and the Prada phone, one can't fail to see the many similarities. It's true that a lot of devices have started to include a touchscreen and lose the keypad, but other manufacturers have also presented such phones, which look nothing like LG and Apple's handsets.

We've yet to see if this lawsuit is really going to happen just as we have yet to see what's going to happen in the Apple-Cisco lawsuit.

With all the suing and all of the iPhone's recently discovered flaws it will take a lot of time and effort from Apple to keep customers interested in buying this phone.

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Comment #1 by: CarbonCopy on 26 Jan 2007, 18:18 UTC reply to this comment

Your fact checking sucks. Cisco does not own a Patent for the iPhone, they had held a Trademark. Two very different things. Also, it looks like that Trademark has officially expired this last December, both in the US and in Europe. If you do a simple google search, you would have found that out.

And LG has a history of rushing products to market before any patents for them have actually cleared the US patent offices. Apple has over 200 patents in the iPone. The case is baseless, as any similaroty between the devices is only skin deep.

Comment #1.1 by: Icon on 26 Jan 2007, 19:08 GMT

Even so, this is about LG and not about Cisco. We don't really care who wins the case as long as the iPhone will be cheaper. And LG's Prada looks really great compared with the iPhone. What's it gonna be?
P.S.: I don't have to tell you about the Asian market which is at least 3-4 years ahead of Europe and American market with its technology.

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