In an ongoing effort to protect its supposed patent for the now generic term “netbook,” Psion has countersued Intel and has charged the company with Trademark Infringement Under The Lanham Act, Common Law Unfair Competition, and Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, among other charges. Psion has also demanded a “trial by jury on all issues triable by right to a jury.” This whole issue is slowly getting ugly. Why can’t we just get along with a name and move on to making great new products that people will actually care about and use to make their lives better, eh Psion?

Via Save the netbooks

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This claim was given a new support by no less than Intel which also filed a case. According to an Intel statement, the term “netbook” was already adopted by the consumers to refer to computing machines which were extensions of notebooks. In short, Psion’s claim that the term netbook is generic no longer holds true since it is now the accepted terminology for such computers.

Intel also pointed out that the despite the 30 million hits generated by the search term “netbook” on Google search results page, none of these hits created a confusion as to the real meaning of the term. In fact, none of the hits referred to Psions’ “netbooks”.

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