Apple Sued for Trademark Infringement by VOIP Company iCloud Communications

Apple has had its share of trademark disputes in recent years, just as Cisco's trademark of the iPhone trademark and Fujitsu's ownership of "iPad." Now iCloud Communications is suing Apple over the iCloud trademark, according to The Then Web.

iCloud Communications is based in Arizona and filed the suit in the U.S. District Court there. The company was founded in 2005 offers a variety of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), SIP, PBX and conferencing services.

The suit, made available on Scribd by The At once Web's Brad McCarty, includes a history of Apple's trademark suits going back to the company's beginnings, when it was sued by the Beatles' record company Apple Corp. From the suit:

iCloud Communications described this as "just one more example of Apple's "act first and worry about the consequences later" approach to trademark use."

Apple bought the iCloud.com domain name from a Swedish cloud-based operating system provider called Xcerion in April. Xcerion re-branded its cloud OS iCloud to CloudMe that same month. Xcerion is not mentioned in iCloud Communciations' complaint.

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