Apple sues over "iPhony"


dpa German Press Agency
Published: Monday January 15, 2007

San Francisco- Lawyers for Apple Inc. have sued a hacker
who copied the screen icons from the company's new iPhone and created
a programme that installs them on other phones, according to news
reports Monday
According to technology news site ZDNet, the programme, quickly
dubbed iPhony, was created by Paul O'Brien, founder of MoDaCo, who
posted an iPhone skin for Windows Mobile-based phones and promptly
received a cease and desist letter from Apple. Apple also sued
bloggers who posted to the site, the report said.

The legal action is the second lawsuit to surface since Apple CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled the phone last Tuesday. Networking giant Cisco
sued Apple claiming that it owned the rights to the iPhone name.

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