"YahooPhone" and "YPhone" trademarks filed for... by Hop-on?
by Nilay Patel 
posted Feb 15th 2008 at 4:38PM
We've heard a lot of talk from Hop-on, makers of all those cheap cellphones that never seem to go anywhere, but the company may have bitten off a little more than it can chew with its latest trademark registration filings for "YahooPhone" and "YPhone." Yep, that's right -- those names bring to mind any massive consumer-oriented companies that might not be happy? Oh, right. There's been some speculation that Hop-on is actually developing a phone for Yahoo!, since it has some deals in place with AT&T and Verizon, but it's pretty unlikely the company is also in charge of branding to the point where it's registering trademarks. No, our guess is that someone's hoping that the folks up in Sunnyvale are a little too distracted by the clumsy advances of one Mr. Ballmer to keep track of a little thing like potentially infringing trademark registrations -- yeah, we don't think that's going to work out so well for you, guys.[Via Trademork]
Read - YahooPhone filing
Read - YPhone filing
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anthony @ Feb 15th 2008 4:55PM
Hop On's the weirdest company. I have *never* seen one of their products go on sale. Originally their phones were meant to be disposable & they've also done "music" & other types of phones, but I don't think I've ever seen one out in the real world. Just on their website or mentioned on Engadget Mobile.
MinceyFresh @ Feb 16th 2008 11:48AM
Way back before Yahoo released the original Y!Go mobile app, wasn't Nokia planning to help create a Yahoo Phone?
Jamar @ Feb 16th 2008 1:33PM
The closest anyone will come to a Yahoo Phone is Softbank. But they own Yahoo, so it's only natural that they integrated Yahoo into their phones (Yahoo Keitai is SO much better than its anemic US counterpart, Yahoo Mobile).