Apple has just gotten a bit of breathing room in their impending court case with iPhone trademark">Cisco Systems over the iPhone trademark, with Cisco Systems giving the Cupertino-based company up to February 15 to respond to the lawsuit. Cisco sued Apple three weeks ago, the day after Steve Jobs introduced Apple's iPhone without Cisco's permission.

According to the Mercury News, Cisco claimed at the time that the two companies had been in discussions for weeks over the use of the moniker, but Apple never signed a final agreement. In a recent joint statement, both companies said that they hope to reach an agreement on both trademark rights and interoperability.

The iPhone trademark was obtained by Cisco in 2000 after buying InfoGear, who had been granted the trademark in 1996. Apple, meanwhile, registered the iPhone.org domain name in 1999. In case you've been living comatose under a rock and three pebbles, Apple currently has a whole stable of products with "i" in front of their names.