The popular cloud storage system Dropbox recently won summary judgment against Thru, Inc.’s claim of trademark infringement.
Thru operates a secure file sharing system called Thru Dropbox. See the screenshot from their website below.
Dropbox filed a trademark application to register the DROPBOX mark in 2009, but was hit with a flurry of oppositions
— Jessica Gutierrez Alm, Attorney
“The cloud” can refer to a lot of things, and is frequently a misunderstood concept. While cloud computing can encompass a number of Internet-based functions, in its simplest form, “the cloud” merely refers to the use of remote servers for data storage, processing, and management. Usually, the remote servers are
One of the major reasons for the trepidation with moving to the cloud is security. Data security breaches have garnered a lot of attention in the media and rightly so. Breaches are expensive to remedy and, if the breach involved personal identifiable information, a company needs to restore the confidence its customers may have lost