“In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use of the name iCloud,” TNW reports.
“Specifically, iCloud Communications is claiming that Apple’s heavy promotion of the iCloud product is damaging to its business and has all but removed the branding of the name from itself and placed it onto Apple,” TNW reports. “To make matters somewhat worse, there’s some accusation that Apple’s services are nearly identical to the ones being offered by iCloud Communciations [since its formation in 2005].”
TNW reports, “There’s no specific amount of monetary relief set, but the suit does call for ‘all profits, gains and advantages’ as well as ‘all monetary damages sustained.’ Further, the suit asks for Apple to refrain from using the iCloud name and to ‘deliver for destruction all labels, signs, prints, insignia, letterhead, brochures, business cards, invoices and any other written or recorded material’ with the iCloud name.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: An agreement will be reached and that will be that and whatever ado there is now will end up being about nothing.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Nesta” for the heads up.]