In June, Verizon sued Nextel for allegedly testing two of Verizon's unreleased handsets without Verizon's permission, and engaging in "corporate espionage." The two companies are also embroiled in another court battle. "We believe we have every legal right to use the phrase 'push-to-talk' to describe our product," because Nextel has no exclusive right to it, said Nancy Stark, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman. "Verizon's misappropriation and use of Nextel's push-to-talk mark is intended to trade off of the goodwill that Nextel has built up by promoting and selling its highly successful combination cellular phone/walkie talkie under that mark," Nextel said in its filings with the U.S. Now, with Verizon and other cell phone companies trying to compete for customers by offering a similar service, Nextel finds itself playing defense. Until this week, Nextel was the only company to offer the walkie-talkie service on its cell phones, a decade-old feature that is both popular and very profitable for the Reston-based firm. The filing is the latest development in a larger battle between Nextel and the rest of the wireless industry. Nextel's accusation came in response to that lawsuit. Verizon Wireless, which introduced earlier this week a phone that offers a walkie-talkie feature similar to Nextel's, sued Nextel in July over the phrase, which it claimed was generic and could not be trademarked. accused Verizon Wireless yesterday of piggybacking on its "push-to-talk" slogan for its walkie-talkie phone service as the rivals took their competition to court.
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