Coming straight from the "Wait For It..." Department, Apple has been sued over use of the name "iCloud". Arizona-based iCloud Communications filed its formal suit against Apple for infringement of its name, which has been in existence since 2005.
Interestingly, apparently the company has never actually filed the name "iCloud" as a trademark, which Apple has, in fact, done. It's easy to see how this could cause confusion in customers' minds, even though being a local company it's arguable that the nation as a whole has never heard of iCloud Communications before. However, there is a decent chance that the company could win the case, regardless of trademark ownership, if they can prove that there is significant overlap between its services and Apple's.
This really just serves to highlight the fact that Apple's continued use of the "i" prefix is growing tiresome. We would be more than happy to see them reboot their naming convention to something completely new, though that's extremely unlikely considering its raft of existing and upcoming hardware devices that already bear the "i" in their names. We'll keep an eye on this case as it develops.
Via ArsTechnica
ken1701
June 13, 2011 at 7:17pm
Keoni, the article from ARS YOU TOOK THIS FROM ADDED this most IMPORTANT piece that makes your rant worthless and just personal, why don't you separate yourself and learn that real journalism is what people want, not a biased self indulged rant without all the facts.
From ARS:
"Update: You can credit my post-WWDC brain fried-ness for leaving this part out. It's worth noting that iCloud Communications has apparently never registered "iCloud" as a trademark, while Apple does own the trademark for "iCloud" through the USPTO."Now this Changes the whole Story & context now doesn't it, and since this is "has-been" news for the past 4 days now that icloud com had no copyrites and Apple has, I wonder how or why you missed this most important piece of information and spun it into a click bait article?, wow how did you miss that.
Answered my own question why.
Please investigate many sources before posting a Rant,
Good Day.
And who is this "we" you make mention of, it's only you that can be spoken for not the other masses of users.
Via: ARS , your link.
munas
June 13, 2011 at 3:05pm
Apple might rename it to McCloud :)
However, I think if it is a company nobody knew before it should not be easier Apple to buy it and foreget.
