They filed 2 trademark claims for "VMWARE VCLOUD" on 8/28/08:
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77558068
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77558072
Interestingly enough, another firm (VoiceCloud Corp.) filed for "vCloud" on
9/16/08, the day after VMWare's announcement:
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77571520
-Andy
Josh Thompson wrote:
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I wondered the same thing. I found this news announcement that was released
on Sept. 15th, 2008:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vcloud_vmworld08.html
Though, I'm thinking getting in to a legal battle over rights to the name
would not be fun.
Josh
On Monday May 04, 2009, Henry E Schaffer wrote:
Aaron writes:
actually no we can NOT use Vcloud.
VMWare is using that name
<http://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/vcloud.html>
Did they start using it before 2 Feb 2008 when we started using it?
(check the registration of the vcloud.org domain and then check out
http://www.vcloud.org/) Does this make any difference?
--henry schaffer
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