Psion Teklogix sending out cease & desist letters to netbook-centric websites
By Darren Murph 
posted December 24th 2008 8:02PM
posted December 24th 2008 8:02PM
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douche bags
I agree, netbook is a type of laptop. Psion should be happy that they created one of the first netbooks. Maybe they should create a new one and they got free marketing.
They'll probably never send a letter to Intel for using the term out of fear of the Core™ 2 Extreme anal raping Intel lawyers will give them.
'Twas the night before netbook, when all through the netbook
Not a netbook was stirring, not even a netbook;
wow... a quick Google search for the term Netbook returns 26,900,000 results. I wonder how many pages deep I'd need to go to find Psion other than references to this story...
"but just in case Engadget is next in line for one of these letters, we'll be utilizing the term smallcheap(er)book for the foreseeable future. Hope that's okay"
Wow, way to bend over before your turn Engadget...
fuck you Psion
You said it, Sorry I could not resist posting a "Netbook" Refrence on my own page. Enjoy
http://k-disk.com/home/page.php?page=ChoosingTheRightNetboot
"I do not believe that Psion Teclogix should be allowed to own the name "Netbook", yet to send cease and desist letters to other websites who rave about them. This is stupid on many levels, the first of course, it is free advertising. What if every business started trademarking the product they do best, McDonalds would own the term "hamburger", Ford would own the term "SUV" and Google would own the internet... Please show your support to many of the other websites by contacting and boycotting Psion. The world needs to be freed from these companies who launch these pointless and frivolous cases"
@Dave:
Obviously sarcasm isn't in your humor dictionary; maybe it's time for an upgrade?
Should I check my SPAM box?
R. Meelker
Owner NetbookSupport.com & NetbookService.com
You know when the patent system is fuckedup when people can patent words to products that aren't made any more. Soon we will be able to sue companys for being complete and utter dicks.
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Suck on that
It's not a patent. It's a trademark. Infringement of a trademark is about confusion. Seeing how many people here are confused, they might have a case - but only against those selling a product.
However, a media outlet (newspaper or blog) using a trademarked brand name synecdochically to generically represent all such products is no more infringement than calling a facial tissue a kleenex.
Patents? Who said anything about patents? This is about a "Trademark" which is something completely different. Your comment makes absolutely no sense whatsover. And to misquote "Billy Madison", we are all dumber for having read it, and may God have mercy on our souls.
I believe a whole host of lawyers will find this trademark too diluted, and this will go down quickly.
"Soon we will be able to sue companys for being complete and utter dicks."
...at which point you'll probably want to change your avatar.
I think trademarks should come from new word or play on words, not putting 2 words together to make a new one.
It's like the guys that want Nintendo to pay for "Wiimote", they call it Wii remote, everyone says Wiimote, and somehow I never imagined someone had a product called that before.
What?
Back to subnotebook then? HAHA like the internet takes their kinda crap...
What about Nettbook? or NehtBook?
Perhaps I should trade mark those puppies!!
when the internet wants, it gets, we refuse to give up the word "netbook!"
People hated the word so much originally and now have grown to truly accept it. It's a beautiful thing. Sort of like Wii.
...
No, I still hate Wii.
Nope, I still hate the netbook term. Though I dislike the name Wii more.
I don't mind netbook, but nettop makes me want to vomit.
This doesn't seem like the best of ideas... "Netbook" has become a generic term and is not enforceable, I would say. They probably also don't meet other requirements for challenging the other entities over trademark infringement. Given that, Wikipedia says:
Wrongful or groundless threats of infringement
Various jurisdictions have laws which are designed to prevent trademark owners from making wrongful threats of trademark infringement action against other parties. These laws are intended to prevent large or powerful companies from intimidating or harassing smaller companies.
Where one party makes a threat to sue another for trademark infringement, but does not have a genuine basis or intention to carry out that threat, or does not carry out the threat at all within a certain period, the threat may itself become a basis for legal action. In this situation, the party receiving such a threat may seek from the Court, a declaratory judgment; also known as a declaratory ruling.
Laptop. LAPTOP!!!
Just call it what it is.
No it isn't! It's a freaking netbook! Learn your form factors!
What about hiptops?
Or palmtops?
or Lapdance... oh wait....
@avg
no hiptop is already trademarked and they own the sidekick.
http://www.hiptop.com/
The under 10-inchers fit in your lap, unlike the hulking 17"+. They also tend not to burn your legs. How could they not be laptops?
pr0nbook?
Tubetop?
netboook. ha see what i did there
"we'll be utilizing the term smallcheap(er)book for the foreseeable future. Hope that's okay."
No. It's not OK. Stick it to the MAN. Like you did with T-Mo.
Oh yeah, well im going to patent the word computer, so anyone that uses it will have to pay me money thanks
You can't. Simple as.
Sarcasm? What is that?
If that was pointed at me then please realise I was playing along.
Dear Psion,
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Signed,
The Internet: Home of Free Speech
NO. The home of free speech is right here, the United States of America. I married my first cousin and we have 7 beautiful children, we sit at home infront of the TV everyday with me drinking beer, my wife cooking and the children singing spongebob.
I own 12 handguns and 23 shotguns. I love killing deer, nothing better than deep-fried deer burgers!
@iloveapple
wow. how many of you kids have disabilities?
Not to delve into a creepy discussion, but as a bio student we read a lot of case studies about cousin or closer relationships, and the increase in genetic abnormalities is pretty much negligible compared to mating with any other person until you get 5+ generations down the road, and in some cases even safer for the child since you are more likely to share an rH factor with a relative, reducing the chance of the mothers body attacking the baby as a foreign body in the womb.
For Christmas, have some creepy science.
That does it, to to be the guy who changed his name to Apple iPod, I will now have to change mine to Netbook Netbookington! yeah right. netbooks are netbooky.
Psion, I have one word for you:
Fail.
You fail.
Psion really made, sold and trademarked a netbook years ago. It their trademark, like it or not. They don't have to let you use it if they don't want to.
I can't believe you guys are going to cave to these idiots. Where are your balls?
I think what he means is "Sue can't teach so I am going to do her"
Right here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs8FywCj4Wc
If you can't do, teach. If you can't teach, sue.
I suggest you reread that.