I’m not one to offer a lot of aimless speculation about things related to Apple (there are enough people trying to sound like they’re in the know), but an interesting thought did cross my mind while reading iPhone Lawsuit Could Test Trademark Law on the Cult of Mac blog. In the post, Pete Mortensen says that it’s, “abundantly clear from popular rumor-mongering, everyone else in the world has mentally ceded the name to Apple.” Consider that for many months before it became a public reality, the Mac rumor sites, all their readers, and all those readers’ family, friends, and anyone else whose ear those readers have talked off have thought of the iPhone as an Apple product. This may not have formal legal bearing on the lawsuit, but on the other hand imagine that a judge, or even a juror if it comes to that, might realize that even they have thought of an Apple iPhone, especially if they know someone who addictively reads the rumor sites…