wouldn't

"US Patant office shocks world by making a sensible decision" have been a more appropriate headline

Dell Fog Computing

or Dell Mist Computing

Comming soon...

Shame

I was looking forward to seeing the term "cloud computing" squander in disuse owing to IP restrictions.

Someone please TM Web 3.0 then we won't have to go through *that* again either.

I'm not so sure....

"few of us think 'Dell' when we think of 'cloud computing'"

For some reason I always think of a cloud of smoke when I think of Dell servers... Especially when you plug them in for the first time and an "unexpected manufacturing defect" (i.e. a self tapping screw through the power tracks on the motherboard) causes the server to catch fire.

I love Dell, me.

A true "source identifier" for Dell's products and services

Dell came close. If they had filed for "cr@p computing" it would have been awarded based on being an accurate descriptor of their products and services.

@ Mark Broadhurst

I guess that Dell is now carbon neutral, can we expect HP to attempt to trademark "Smog Computing" ?

Isn't..

..this just the rich-man's equivalent of domain squatting? Only with PHRASES.

Head-in-the-cloud computing™?

A question

Ok, The first time you ever heard of "Cloud Computing", how many of you immediately thought, "Oh, so that's what vaporware runs on!"?

Alternative

Might I suggest the similar yet somehow more appropriate "clown computing"?