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Submission + - Intel counter-sued by Psion over netbook trademark (savethenetbooks.com)

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Save the Netbooks

on Sunday March 01, 2009 @05:26PM

Save the Netbooks writes: "We discussed Psion sending C&Ds late last year over international trademarks held on the term "netbook" and Dell accusing Psion of fraud last week. Since then Intel has joined in by suing Psion in federal court and the Save the Netbooks campaign has just obtained a court filing (PDF warning) showing that Psion counter-sued Intel on Friday. They have demanded a jury trial, profits, treble damages, destruction of material bearing the mark "netbook" and the netbook.com domain (among other things), claiming that they are still actively selling netbooks despite also revealing sales figures showing a miniscule market share. It seems that declaring victory may have been a little premature as it will be months before the dispute plays out in court."

Comment Even if true it'll drop thanks to Netbooks, HTML5 (Score 1) 383

by savethenetbooks on Sunday February 22, 2009 @12:16PM (#26948947) Attached to: Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices?

Even if true now that number will trend downward rapidly from now on. Flash support on Linux has always been ordinary, especially on anything other than x86 processors. Given the next wave of netbooks are likely to be ARM devices (especially the really cheap ones) they're going to have a really hard time keeping up unless they do something drastic like open source the player itself. Flash constantly crashes WebKit nightlies on OS X and the same is true of every experience with Flash I've had outside of the mainstream browsers.

Definitely good to see some critical analysis done though... I much prefer native web applications and with HTML 5's video tag and application features Flash will really become quite optional.

I would go so far as to say that Flash penetration could drop below 50% in the coming years given these two new kids on the block alone.

Sam

Comment Save the Netbooks grassroots campaign (Score 2, Interesting) 167

by savethenetbooks on Friday February 20, 2009 @02:12AM (#26925893) Attached to: Dell Accuses Psion of "Fraud" Over Netbook

It's unfortunate the Save the Netbooks campaign was not credited in the summary (nor many of the resulting articles) for uncovering Dell's petition to cancel (note that the linked document is in our account), even if only because we have the most complete collection of information and research on the topic.

We've been working hard over the last days to overturn Psion's trademark and it was actually in the course of filing the petition to cancel that we discovered Dell had beaten us to it by a day! We're happy they're playing the white knight this time (after last year's "cloud computing" claim), and especially for their having added the "fraud" angle to our pleadings for abandonment and genericness.

Anyway we wish them the best of luck, even though we don't think they'll need it.

Save the Netbooks

Submission + - Dell accuses Psion of "fraud" over netbook (pcpro.co.uk) 2

Submitted by

Barence

on Thursday February 19, 2009 @06:28AM

Barence writes: "Dell has issued court papers in the US, accusing Psion of fraudulently laying claim to the term netbook. Psion sent out warning letters late last year to PC manufacturers, retailers and bloggers alike, asking them to stop using the term netbook, which the company registered as a trademark in the late 1990s. But in a Petition for Cancellation of Psion's trademark, the PC manufacturer accuses Psion of abandoning the term and fraudulently claiming it was still in use. "Psion is not currently offering laptop computers under the Netbook trademark," Dell's petition claims. The petition also claims that Psion made false statements about its use of the term Netbook in a sworn declaration to the US Trademark Office."

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