Company that filed trademark lawsuit against Apple has change of heart
Remember that Arizona VoIP services provider called iCloud Communications that sued Apple last summer over the latter’s plan to offer an online storage service that would also be called iCloud?
Well, it seems as though iCloud Communications is dropping that lawsuit and is undergoing a name change. The Phoenix New Times has details.
(What online news looked like on 9/11)
Neither party to the lawsuit has commented publicly, so let’s fill the void with speculation:
Perhaps the Arizona iCloud guys decided to let bygones be bygones.
Maybe they realized that they didn’t have a case, even though it sure looked like they did to this layman.
Or maybe – just maybe – Apple swung open the checkbook and made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
I’m going with the last one, of course, at least until told otherwise.
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