Dell Loses Bid To Trademark "Cloud Computing"

1sockchuck writes "The USPTO has issued a 'non-final determination' refusing Dell's request to trademark the term 'cloud computing' (we discussed the application earlier), finding that the term is generic and 'therefore incapable of functioning as a source-identifier for applicant's services.' According to Data Center Knowledge, 'Dell has the option of filing a response to submit arguments to dispute the USPTO examiner's findings.'" Here is the USPTO's ruling. A week and a half ago the PTO cancelled its 'notice of allowance' for the mark, a move little remarked upon at the time.

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[KGIII]

It ate a couple hundred MBs yesterday but the server lived so, well, I think that it applies once more in this case.

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(Please don't mod this post funny mods, I got those points yesterday in a different situation - save them to mod someone's insightful post up.)

That's Rt. 15 in Greenville, Maine at the entry to Woody's Tavern.

If we're talking patent trolling then, well, that'd be about what they owe.