Between Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud, we certainly learned about a plethora of upcoming features that will make their way down the Apple pipeline. It also appeared as though Apple may have been busy solidifying iCloud, having filed eleven iCloud trademark applications with the US Patent & Trademark Office.
Apple filed one iCloud application per International Classification. But what's the purpose for a whopping eleven trademarks? As Patently Apple points out in their report, there have been times when Apple has had a delay in getting a trademark application approved due to being forced to re-clarify or re-state their description of a given International Class specific, as had recently happened with the "iBookstore" trademark.
So to avoid iCloud suffering a similar fate, Apple opted to file eleven applications, with each covering a separate class to make sure that the iCloud trademark would get through the USPTO in some shape or form and would become protected.
Some of the various classifications include "electronic storage of data, text, images, audio, and video; storage services for archiving electronic data; information and consultation in connection therewith."
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