Canadian iPhone delayed by trademark dispute?
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted October 14th 2007 1:21PM
posted October 14th 2007 1:21PM
Mirroring the premature trademark dispute surrounding the launch of the Cisco iPhone in the US, Apple's Canadian launch of its respective iPhone could be delayed due to a trademark dispute with a product that shares the same name as Apple's gadget. Comwave Telecom in Toronto owns the trademark rights to the name "iPhone" in Canada for use on its VoIP products and services, and has filed a complaint with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office over Apple's application for the trademark rights of the name for its future Canadian version of the iPhone. Sounds like a case of how much Apple is willing to pay, or how long they're willing to delay.
I live in Toronto and I am overwhelmed by all these billboards touting "The iPhone is Here". I get a little heart attack and find out at the bottom right hand corner in the most minute size "comwave". More like "conwave".
OMG! That would piss me off badly, and I'm no big fan of the iPhone. Even if I'd never heard of Comwave before (only heard of them because they hold the trademark for iPhone) I'd hate them a lot after that.
will, where are those ads? I haven't seen any around toronto.
Comwave also have the most incredibly annoying tv commercials I have EVER seen. Their whole game is so low rent and out of touch it's kind of sad.
dj-kenpo, most of these billboards are on the TTC buses, and usually at the rear of the vehicles.
Camperton, I agree about those commercials. A blonde whose acting is terrible, talking about some darn Internet thing. Then, the annoying "comwave...comwave" echo at the end.
Beware-The Mark is coming
Beware-The Mark is coming
Beware - Idiots are allowed to post.
lol, I resent that
iphone won't sell here anyways. Us Canadians prefer communicat'n by send'n smoke signals from our igloos while we snack on whale blubber pie.
Give the friggin' iphone to them!
i don't want the JUDAS PHONE here - no thanks - go nokia
Comwave Telecom: I'm in your Commonwealth, blocking your iphonez.
Comwave has to stop BS ing about their stupid iPhone trademark. Ive seen their ads on street buses in toronto before and they use THE SAME FONT for their iPhone service as apple does. I dont think apple has any problem taking back trademark. I mean who uses comwave anyways?
No need for the iphone in canada. we pay $0.05/kb here, no data plans above 20mb/mo.
we should have the canadian version- the i_our_telecom_companies_are_corrupt_organizations provided by shittia telecom ltd
edit: corruption_inducing_fucktards
It's ok I already got mine. =)
I heard from "someone" that theres gonna be a "big" change on Rogers/Fido's Phone and Data Plans this coming Q4 2007.
it already is Q4 for rogers.
Yeah, the price for data plans is going up....
;)
Gotta pay for those Blue Jays, Rogers Centre and Macleans somehow...
well, they still have until December, who knows? If the guy gave me a mis-information then I need to slap him a couple of times =D but seriously I hope this change will happen.
Well, now that John Tory may be ought of work (again) maybe he'll return to Rogers to piss off Wireless users like he used to with Internet subscribers...
He was always good with bafflegab and pointless justification of cost vs services - just what Rogers needs to explain their data plans and why they are late off the mark fixing them.
And, as terrible as that may be, at least he's not Ontario's Premier.
"Our position is Apple has one of two choices: they can either walk away from the trademark and let us keep the iPhone name here in Canada, or they can buy the brand from us," he said.
It is interested to know that companies only care much about the right to using the model or name of the apparatus, but not the actual capabilities of such apparatus.
If customers in certain countries definitely intend to use such apparatus(iPhone) where the service exist, those customers can easily purchase such apparatus anywhere around the world any bring them back to their home town and use this apparatus.
The most important is that whether customers are interested in such kind of apparatus, not the company which hold the registration of the model of the apparatus to decide. If the apparatus is not an advance instrument, no matter how good the model number or name is, no one will lay their hand on it.
We have companies already modified and supplied iPhone that support our own telecommunication service and characters beside English and long before it will officially launch is this part of the world. We do not worry too much about registration and/or patient model name or number.
Comwave is in the right.
Newsflash...Canada is a different country that the US and if Apple wishes to sell its products here it can damn well deal with OUR companies and laws like a good corporate citizen should.
Way to go with the rabid knee-JERK reaction!
Thanks Mike...to bad I didn't ASSk you.
This is Just a case of Apple not doing their homework.
Maybe they should just call it the "eh?Phone".
sort of reminds me of the calgarian who owned appleimac.com haha