There's fresh evidence today that Microsoft is planning to do something with the "Kumo" name, possibly making it the new brand for its Live Search engine. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley cites additional Kumo-related domain names that appear to have been registered on the company's behalf. As noted last week, the company also appears to control the kumo.com domain.
But the "Kumo" trademark is a different matter. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a person identified as Dascar Samira Facendo, of Venezuela, filed for a trademark on the Kumo name earlier this year, under the general classification of search engines. (LiveSide.net noted the trademark filing in a post last week on the possible Kumo rebranding.)
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