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Psion settles case more than the n term, netbook
The risk to popular 'netbook' term has ended with Psion stating that it will "voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations"
Psion, the British firm founded by Dr David Potter, "has settled the trademark cancellation and infringement litigation brought inside the Northern District of California with Intel with regards to its trademark with the expression 'netbook'," reviews Taiwan's DigiTimes.
Psion's official declaration says:
The litigation continues to be settled by way of an amicable agreement under which Psion will voluntarily withdraw all of its trademark registrations for 'Netbook'. Neither social gathering accepted any liability. In mild of this amicable arrangement, Psion has agreed to waive all its rights against 3rd parties in respect of past, existing or foreseeable future use of the 'Netbook' term.
If there was a monetary settlement also,
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Psion induced a little bit of a stir in December when it commenced sending "cease and desist" letters to websites utilizing the netbook phrase, which it used for the Psion NetBook nearly a decade in the past. But as I noted on the time: "it wasn't a netbook in today's terms: it absolutely was actually a Psion Sequence seven organiser, a scaled-up Series 5, running EPOC not a scaled down notebook Computer." It's the sort of point we will get in touch with a 'smartbook',
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Intel and Dell responded by asking for Psion's trademark to become revoked, arguing,
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Psion asked for the jury trial, delivering sales value figures (reproduced at Liliputing) to help its declare that it nevertheless sold netbooks, and that "profits Intel produced from its infringement be transfered to Psion."
It's not obvious what,
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