It seems that a German company by the name of Smartbook AG is unpleased with companies utilizing the term ‘smartbook‘. In fact, they have recently told Netbooknews.de to stop using the term as Smartbook AG holds the trademark and copyright and the use of it is tarnishing their reputation.

What’s strange is the company has told the website to remove all references from the term on both their US and German websites which doesn’t make sense because they are based in Germany, not the US.

What would make more sense is if Smartbook AG went after companies deeming their products smartbooks, not the media.

via engadget

Tags: copyright, Germany, Laptops, lawsuit, Mobile News, netbooks, smartbook ag, Trademark

Now, there isn’t much information to go along with these trademark filings but at least we have a hint at one or more future devices HTC plans to release.

The trademarks recently discovered include Dawn, Vigor, Interlude, Tattoo and Vigor. As mentioned above, there is no info on these but perhaps we can make an educated guess as to what they will be. Chances are, some of them (if not all) will be running Android. Furthermore, the device entitled Tattoo will most likely feature some kind of (customizable?) print on all or part of the phone. And perhaps the Imagio will feature a high resolution camera and on-board editing software. As for the rest? Well, your guess is as good as mine.

We can guess all day but in the end we’re probably going to be wrong. We’ll keep you posted as HTC releases further word on these handsets.

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, dawn, filing, Google, HTC, HTC, interlude, rumor, tattoo, Trademark, vigor

If a recent trademark filing is anything to go by, (pictured above) Nokia is gearing up to launch a Cseries of handsets at some point in the future.

Now, there are virtually no hints what so ever as to what exactly these Cseries handsets will entail. Hell, we don’t even know that the Cseries will actually be mobile phones.

We’ll have to wait until Nokia actually comes forward and gives us more information regarding this mysterious Cseries.

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Tags: cseries, filing, Nokia, rumor, Trademark, Uncategorized

I bet you were not expecting this to happen but it looks like Google and lots of other Android friends are in trouble with the law. Why is that? Well a certain Erich Specht who owns the trademark for Android Data Corporation since way back in October 2002, has sued Google and pretty much everyone else using the “Android” term for trademark infringement.

You would expect Google to be smarter than this and to actually apply themselves for the trademark for “Android” right? Well they did and the trademark application was denied to avoid confusion with Mr. Specht. I guess that Google and everyone else is going to pay a lot of money to keep the Android name in business. That’s right, Mr. Specht wants money and a name-change for Google’s OS. But what’s in a name anyway?

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Tags: Android, Google, Google, infringement, lawsuit, Mobile News, Trademark

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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Tags: Dell, Intel, Laptops, Mobile News, netbook, Psion, Trademark

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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Tags: Dell, Laptops, Mobile News, netbook, Portable Devices, Psion, Trademark