Here’s the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a lawyer from a town in Texas you’ve never heard of, claiming you’ve infringed on a patent you never heard of. […]
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Companies should think twice about pursuing trademarks around the term ‘cloud computing,’ as market saturation is making product differentiation increasingly difficult. Cloud computing stands to transform business and personal technology, but the phrase “cloud computing” raises legal issues for brand owners looking to exploit it as a trademark or brand name. As with any marketing revolution — we saw it with green or eco-friendly products, referred to as “green washing” — trademark issues are never […]