{"id":290,"date":"2007-01-11T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-05-26T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T07:07:08","slug":"apple-cisco-over-trademark-and-deadweight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Cisco Over Trademark and Deadweight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/system\/mac.gif\" alt=\"Mac\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/cisco.gif\" width=\"88\" height=\"52\" alt=\"Mac\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was widely reported a long time ago that Cisco had acquired the trademark of iPhone.  Then when it was reported that Apple placed a manufacturing order to a Taiwanese company, some people might have thought that the order wasn&#8217;t for iPhone.  Now Cisco Systems has sued Apple Inc. for infringing Cisco&#8217;s iPhone trademark.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No matter how important the name of iPhone is for Apple, it will be a silly joke of the decade if Apple doesn&#8217;t have Plan B for legally using it.  And whether or not Apple and Cisco reach an agreement in trademark use, a simple economics principle applies to this silly conflict.  It&#8217;s a deadweight loss to the whole nation.<\/p>\n<p>A deadweight loss results from an inefficient allocation of resources.  Going to court and exchanging arguments and papers don&#8217;t involve real production.  Cisco and Apple could both use their resources otherwise to produce goods and services.  America as a nation doesn&#8217;t benefit from this trademark conflict.  But other nations will because they can produce goods and services while Americans are fighting over use of a trademark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was widely reported a long time ago that Cisco had acquired the trademark of iPhone. Then when it was reported that Apple placed a manufacturing order to a Taiwanese company, some people might have thought that the order wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}