Psion: We are still selling netbooks, really

The company still wants to own the trademark Netbook. So they try to convince everybody they are still selling them. They don’t produce them anymore, but why should it prevent them from talking about multi-million dollar sales?

This seems rather bizarre as they stopped producing their “Netbook Pro computer” quite some time ago. Psions own website calls this item “discontinued”.

They even report having made “multi-million dollar sales” in both the US and the EU in 2006. Nobody noticed, yes. Why has nobody seen their product at Best Buy? Well, those precious items were mostly sold in ” the highly specialised supply chain logistics area”.

We should have known, of course. Intel should have known. Dell should have known. Everybody should have known who wanted to sell something and just liked to call it a netbook.

These are lawyers talking who want to defend a trademark while Dell and Intel view it as an abandoned trademark and try to invalidate it. It looks like a hard fight for a trademark, and maybe multi-million dollar fees for lawyers participating on both sides.

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