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Apple seems to have filed 11 trademark applications for icloud, in sectors ranging from storage, streaming, telecommunications, social networking, entertainment
by ignifero 15y ago
Apple seems to have filed 11 trademark applications for icloud, in sectors ranging from storage, streaming, telecommunications, social networking, entertainment, clothing, footwear etc. So it's not surprising that they will receive tons of objections for their applications from anyone who owns a bussiness with "cloud" in it. I think these are usually settled.
- p0ppe 15y agoI quick search suggests that icloud communications doesn't own the trademark icloud in any categories. There 13 records in the USPTO database, 11 applications by Apple, one by Douglas Dane Barker and one by Xcerion Ab of Sweden.
- deadbadger 15y agoRegistration is not a necessary condition for enforcement of trademark rights (although it obviously helps). In some jurisdictions, of which the USA is one, an established history of use can be sufficient to establish rights to a given mark. So while iCloud Communications do not appear to have a registration for the marks, that doesn't mean they have no rights to them. http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426680 http://www.uspto.gov/faq/trademarks.jsp#_Toc275426680
- SeanLuke 15y agoMy understanding was that registration was necessary if you wanted to have standing to defend your trademark in federal court. Yet here I Cloud Communications is suing in US district court.
- ignifero 15y agoTrue, although they claim they have a trademark in arizona. Their main argument is that of unfair competition, because they prove they are using the bussiness name for years now.