Just as we were expecting, Psion is claiming that it’s still going to sell that Netbook Pro. Dell and Intel have both filed requests for the trademark of netbook to be removed from Psion. Psion says that it “can understand why people might have assumed that sales ceased a while back,” but in fact sales are still going on at least in the “highly specialized supply chain logistics area.” Isn’t that convenient? And Psion is ready to prove that. It has “all the invoices to prove multi-million dollar sales in the US in 2006 and sales that continue even to this day.” As a matter of fact they say that “just because we’re not selling tens of thousands through Best Buy doesn’t mean we’re not entitled to our trademark.” Besides Apple vs Psystar trial we’re going to be following this whole new netbook predicament for you too.

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Dell was the first to make the move but I’m sure some other company would have done it eventually. Dell filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in which it’s requesting that Psion’s netbook trademark to be cancelled. Psion is surely going to loose this unless it decides to create a totally new netbook much better than everything we’ve seen so far. So, ladies and gentlemen, place you bets now! Who will win that netbook patent?

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The master of the universe, Google, has decided that the term “netbook” won’t be allowed anymore in any kind of their Adwords. Google feels that Psion, the Netbook creator, should be the only one to use the word. What will everyone call those tiny, ultra-portable laptops now that Google has investigated that trademark claim and gave a sentence favorable to Psion. So how should we refer to netbooks now that Google doesn’t approve of it? How does Tiny-Ultraportable Laptop sound Goggle? Or the acronym version: TUL? Eee TULs anyone?

And by the way, is Psion going to release any new netbooks? Why do they need the word if they won’t be using it?

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There’s this tiny company out there which says it owns the trademark for Netbooks. And the company is tired of having so many people around the web referring to tiny laptops as netbooks. The company used to make a tiny laptop too. It was called the Netbook and therefor it still has the trademark on the term. The computer didn’t make it as it never become a hit product and Psion hasn’t developed any new netbook since. Will Psion sue everyone that uses the term? Will the company start working on a new netbook of their own? So far they don’t even have a notebook on their site!

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