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by justina1 4338 days ago
The spec for iBeacon is proprietary and the name is trademarked (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:h5e...).

IIRC, Apple even went so far as to revoke iBeacon usage from companies that tried to make an Android library (Radius Networks, the creators of this spec, being one of them).