Friday, February 20, 2009

Dell Psion right to challenge the word "netbook".

Company Dell has asked the Office for Patent and Trademark USA (US Patent and Trademark Office) to cancel a trademark owned by Psion netbook, reports Cnet News.
Dell representatives stressed that the Psion is not producing any products under the brand netbook in the past six years and has no plans to do so in the future. Dell also said that one of the managers Psion lied when he talked about the sale of devices under the brand netbook in November 2006.
Recall that Psion in 2000, has released two handheld computer netBook and netBook Pro, whose names are registered trademarks. In December 2008, Psion required to remove the word netbook (netbuk) sites.
Companies, on sites where the word occurs netbook, it was proposed to remove him from there until the end of March 2009. Continued use of the word would be regarded as Psion harm to the right.
In early 2009, Google found the word netbook registered trademarks of Psion. At the same time, the search engine has asked advertisers not to use it in ads.
The term "netbuk in practice introduced by Intel. They were taken to signify ultradeshevye notebooks designed primarily for the Internet. One of the brightest representatives netbukov are a family of mobile computers Asus Eee PC.

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