This past summer an Oregon startup made headlines with the speed with which it set up its business to sell solar panels from China. Remember Centron Solar?

Apparently, the company, founded by a former SolarFun executive, moved so quickly with its business plan that it didn't realize its name would sound so similar to a German company called Centro Solar.

So this week, Centron Solar ditched its name and became Grape Solar. The change came after Grape Solar received a notice from a law firm last week about a potential lawsuit from Centro Solar, reported the Oregonian.

The new name means something, of course. Grape Solar's founder and CEO Ocean Yuan told the Oregonian that grape represents the cluster of Chinese companies near Shanghai that makes various components for silicon solar panels and assembles them for Grape to sell under its brand. Plus, some tech companies that have named themselves after fruits have had great success – think Apple and BlackBerry.

Lastly, "The grape has a very deep relationship with the sun," he said.

Yuan's company garnered attention in July when the newspaper reported that he had picked out the company's name (Centron) only a month earlier and leased a 25,000-square-foot warehouse within two weeks to accommodate a $1 million, first shipment of solar panels that arrived around the same time.

Yuan headed the U.S. operation of China-based Solarfun before he started Centron/Grape Solar. Solarfun makes solar cells and assemble them into panels.