Well that didn’t take long. In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use of the name iCloud. While I’m no legal expert, it does appear that Apple has some explaining to do. Specifically, iCloud Communications is claiming that Apple’s heavy promotion of the iCloud product is damaging to its business and has all but removed the branding of the name from itself and placed it onto Apple....

Apple has found itself the target of a new lawsuit from Via Technologies, accusing the company of infringing three U.S patents for microprocessors that it uses in its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices,Bloomberg reports. The Taipei-based chip maker seeks to ban sales of Apple devices that utilises the processor technologies registered to the company and will seek a jury trial, according to a complaint that was filed at a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware....

A lawsuit has been filed against Apple by two customers of the Upper West Side store in New York City, reportsAppleinsider. The incident involves two men, Brian Johnston and Nile Charles, who have accused Apple of discrimination on the grounds that they are black. Johnston, 34, and Charles, 25, claim that they entered the Broadway Apple store on December 9th 2010 at around 3:20 p.m.. They claim that a 6-foot-2, 255lb Apple employee invaded their “personal space” and began intimidating them, stating “You know the deal....

Apple has been sued by a seemingly nebulous Florida firm called Operating System Solutions Inc. over patents related to the fast boot technology in OS X, reportsPatently Apple. The patent was previously owned by LG Electronics, the makers of theLG G-Slate, an Android powered tablet. This has led some tospeculatethat LG’s ties to Android could in fact make this a shell game that is being used to open a line of attack for Android on Apple’s OS....

Apple is being sued by New York publisher John T. Colby, reportsBloomberg. The publisher filed the suit in federal court today, accusing Apple of trademark infringement for using the term ‘iBooks’ in reference to its electronic book store. Colby claims that the use of the term ‘iBooks’ in relation to an electronic library is infringing on his ability to use the ‘ibooks’ and ipicturebooks’ trademarks that he acquired, along with other assets, from another publisher, Byron Preiss, in 2006 and 2007....