Apple Sued by iCloud

[The Northerner]

Looks like Apple finds itself in the middle of another trademark dispute over a recently revealed product.

iCloud Communications, an Arizona-based computer communications company, filed suit against Apple on Thursday for allegedly infringing on its trademark of the name iCloud.

According to court documents posted by The Next Web, iCloud Communications has been using the name iCloud in the "computer and electronic data transmission" space long before Apple revealed its new wireless syncing service on June 6.

The company claims that people will now associate iCloud with Apple instead of iCloud Communications -- and that could hurt its business.

Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/230127/apple_sued_by_icloud.html

[lob1]

1. If they didn't want to be associated with Apple,

they shouldn't have named their product I-anything.

[AlabamaLibrul]

2. "Since 1985, iCloud Communications has been a local and long distance telephone provider."

[lob1]

4. Oops. I didn't read the whole article.

I've learned a lesson.

[eShirl]

5. I've done that before

and will probably do it again sooner or later!
:hi:

[Make7]

6. iCloud Communications was formed in 2005

iCloud Communications
    11. iCloud Communications was formed in 2005 and is a provider of, among other "cloud computing" products and services, computer telephony (telecommunication) hardware and software for the electronic transmission of email, text, audio, video, photos, information, data, video conferencing, virtual video conferencing and other content via the internet and wireless data networks.


http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/arizona/azdce/2:2011cv01158/620566/1/0.pdf

 

[eShirl]

3. they were supposed to be psychic?