Trademark Wars: Will the REAL NetBook please rise!
Love ‘em or hate ‘em. NetBooks are here to stay. You may have heard about the trademark controversy that erupted last December over the term “netbook”. Psion Teklogix, a Canadian manufacturer of industrial grade POS and mobile terminals filed a trademark application way back in 1996! They were granted the exclusive rights for “netbook” as it relates to a portable computer November 21, 2000.
But, Intel and a bunch of other vendors have used the phrase in billions of impressions for the past 2 years. Psion sued… but to what use?
The current CEO, John Conoley of Psion lists his expertise on LinkedIn as “Company Repositioning and Operational Turnaround” – yikes, doesn’t sound promising for Psion. We tried to reach Mr Conoley, no reply yet.
One thing we’re sure of: the mobile computing public does NOT want a Psion 8525 G2 (shown above) running Windows CE as their only choice of a netbook!
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