Microsoft's SkyDrive name in trouble

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Submission + - Microsoft's SkyDrive name in trouble (muktworld.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:23AM

sfcrazy writes: Microsoft is once again in trademark trouble. After losing the name Metro as the trademark was owned by a European company, Microsoft is now again at the risk of losing the name of its public cloud service SkyDrive.

Microsoft was accused by the British Sky Broadcasting Group that the Windows make infringes upon its trademark Sky. A UK court has ruled in favour of Sky leaving Microsoft to either settle with the company and pay for the use of the name or change the name of its product.

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