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Psion settles situation over the n term, netbook
The threat to well-liked 'netbook' expression has ended with Psion declaring that it's going to "voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations"

Psion,Office 2007 Ultimate, the British company founded by Dr David Potter, "has settled the trademark cancellation and infringement litigation introduced in the Northern District of California with Intel concerning its trademark with the term 'netbook'," reports Taiwan's DigiTimes.
Psion's official declaration says:
The litigation continues to be settled by way of an amicable agreement beneath which Psion will voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations for 'Netbook'. Neither get together accepted any liability. In light-weight of this amicable arrangement, Psion has agreed to waive all its rights towards third events in respect of previous,Office 2010 Pro, latest or future use of the 'Netbook' phrase.
If there was a fiscal settlement also, the terms had been not disclosed.
Psion brought on a little bit of a stir in December when it started sending "cease and desist" letters to websites employing the netbook phrase,Office 2010 Pro, which it employed for the Psion NetBook virtually a ten years ago. But as I mentioned at the time: "it wasn't a netbook in present day terms: it had been genuinely a Psion Sequence 7 organiser, a scaled-up Sequence five, working EPOC not a scaled down notebook Computer." It is the kind of point we will call a 'smartbook', if Qualcomm gets its way.
Intel and Dell responded by asking for Psion's trademark for being revoked,Office Pro, arguing, as DigiTimes puts it, "that the organization was no extended using the mark which has a item at the moment in the marketplace, and the expression 'netbook' had fallen into generic use."
Psion asked to get a jury trial, offering revenue price figures (reproduced at Liliputing) to help its declare that it nonetheless sold netbooks,Office Professional Plus 2010 Key, and that "profits Intel manufactured off of its infringement be transfered to Psion."
It's not apparent what, if anything at all, Psion Teklogix has acquired, besides some publicity that has not been noticeably favourable. The situation hasn't benefited users or extra nearly anything for the sum of human happiness. But I assume each of the attorneys concerned made a tidy profit.