Apple or lost iPhone trademark in Brazil

Early in design iPhone before Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), the Brazilian company called IGB Eletronica (hereinafter referred to as the "IGB") the company has launched a product named iPhone. Course, despite the IGB as early as in 2000, launched a named G-Gradiente iPhone, everyone knows that the iPhone is Apple's smart phone.

Apple wants to get in Brazil "iPhone" trademark, making the "iPhone" officially attributed to Apple rather than Gradiente despite the Brazilians watched television all know that the iPhone is Apple products, but Apple in 2007 to the Brazilian Association of Industrial Property (Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property), so that the "iPhone" to become its exclusive use of the trademark request may still not been approved.

Brazilian Association of Industrial Property will be released on February 5 decision on the "iPhone" trademark attribution.

After 8 years of the audit, IGB "iPhone" trademark. Brazilian Association of Industrial Property, will be asked to confirm the attribution of the "iPhone" trademark if IGB will not budge, forcing Apple to spend millions of dollars to buy the "iPhone" trademark.

In 2007, Apple purchased from Cisco, the exclusive right to use of the iPhone trademark last year, Apple's $ 60 million purchase to the Taiwan region of China Proview "iPad" trademark.
The IGB In the the trademark due 15 days before the launch of the latest G-Gradiente iPhone.