Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Feb 2009 16:41 UTC
I recently joked that we might want to rename OSNews to CourtNews, and with each passing day that silly joke seems to become less silly. This week, it became clear that Psion Teklogix, the company behind various small computing devices back in the '90s, has started an all-out legal offensive to prohibit other companies from using the term "netbook".
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RE[3]: Didn't Intel come up with this?
by Havin_it on Sun 22nd Feb 2009 13:20
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... And then Monsanto sue them, because they own the IP on the DNA of the orange (I wish this were an entirely fictitious riposte, but it ain't)
The US seems the worst example at the moment, but the whole planet really needs to take a long hard look at how it legislates around "intellectual property". Until that happens, a bunch of carpetbaggers are going to be able to continue getting fat off something their employees created, invented (or even just thought of, wrt patents) decades ago. Sick and sad.
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2005-07-06
oh, come on. People will continue to call them NetBooks whether Psion like it not. It'll become yet another brand turned into a generic name - just as people now refer to MP3 players as iPods, vacuum cleaners as hoovers etc. Its hardly a new thing.
If I was Psion I would be happy that people now finally got the name out there - heck, why not do a campaign along the lines of 'the original Netbook company' or something to that effect.
I swear these companies, when they're given lemons, instead of making lemonade they turn around and sue the person stating they wanted oranges instead.