It was bound to happen sooner or later: just one week after Apple's formal announcement of iCloud at WWDC 2011, a company called iCloud Communications has filed a trademark suit against Apple. The Arizona-based company points out that its own trademarks have been in use since 2005 and that Apple has infringed on its name with the introduction of its own cloud-based service—which it alleges is part of a pattern of willful infringement on Apple's part.
According to iCloud Communications' website, the company focuses on VoIP solutions for business and residential customers, though in its complaint filed in the US District Court of Arizona, the company also says it provides other cloud computing services to its customers as well. In addition to having spent more than $550,000 building up its data center and telecommunications hub in Phoenix, the company claims to spend "tens of thousands of dollars" annually in advertisements using its own iCloud logos.
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