Turn autoplay off,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
Turn autoplay on
Please activate cookies so that you can turn autoplay off
Psion settles situation more than the n word, netbook
The danger to popular 'netbook' expression has ended with Psion stating that it's going to "voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations"
Psion, the British organization founded by Dr David Potter, "has settled the trademark cancellation and infringement litigation brought inside the Northern District of California with Intel concerning its trademark in the phrase 'netbook'," studies Taiwan's DigiTimes.
Psion's official assertion says:
The litigation has long been settled by way of an amicable agreement below which Psion will voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations for 'Netbook'. Neither get together accepted any liability. In light of this amicable arrangement,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, Psion has agreed to waive all its rights in opposition to third parties in respect of previous, present or long term use of the 'Netbook' term.
If there was a financial settlement at the same time, the terms were not disclosed.
Psion triggered a little a stir in December when it started out sending "cease and desist" letters to websites using the netbook phrase, which it employed for the Psion NetBook almost a ten years ago. But as I noted in the time: "it wasn't a netbook in present day terms: it had been truly a Psion Sequence 7 organiser,
Office Standard, a scaled-up Sequence 5, operating EPOC not a scaled down notebook Computer." It's the sort of factor we will call a 'smartbook',
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student, if Qualcomm will get its way.
Intel and Dell responded by asking for Psion's trademark to become revoked, arguing, as DigiTimes puts it, "that the business was no lengthier employing the mark with a products currently out there, and that the phrase 'netbook' had fallen into generic use."
Psion asked for any jury trial,
Office Professional 2007 Key, offering income appeal figures (reproduced at Liliputing) to support its claim that it nonetheless offered netbooks, and that "profits Intel produced off of its infringement be transfered to Psion."
It's not obvious what, if something, Psion Teklogix has gained, aside from some publicity that hasn't been noticeably favourable. The scenario hasn't benefited users or added anything for the sum of human joy. But I anticipate all of the attorneys concerned produced a tidy profit.