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Microsoft to rename SkyDrive after losing trademark suit | |
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| Time: 13:22 EST/18:22 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft will be forced to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service after failing to defend its trademark against U.K. broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. BSkyB, as the service is more commonly called, filed suit against Microsoft in 2011 in the English High Court, successfully arguing that the “Sky” portion of its name could be confused with Microsoft’s own SkyDrive, and that Microsoft’s use of the name SkyDrive infringed Sky’s rights in the ‘Sky’ mark. In June, Microsoft lost the case in England and Wales, and failed on appeal as well. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (173.29.0.102) at 7/31/2013 2:16:17 PM |
| What's up with MSFT acting like pussies when it comes to names lately? Metro was a great name and is still used by just about everyone outside of MSFT. Now they cave in on SkyDrive? What's going on behind the scenes? Did they lose all the aggressive lawyers to Apple and Google? Fight for the names you have been using for years. Hell, Ballmer budgeted 1.3 Billion US dollars to market Surface before was release, spent most of it, and can use the rest to pay the lawyers to fight for their names. Are they going to go back to naming products like they did in the past? How about Microsoft Remote Internet Storage Service for Windows version 2.1 R1? Or, maybe they have been infighting again and AzureDrive will be the new name, which would be kinda nice actually. |
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