Comments on: Intel to Psion: Nuh uh, you did NOT sell netbooks after 2003

By: jameswalsh

jameswalsh — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:52:59 +0000

After they were forced to pay AMD $1.25 billion you'd think they'd lay off a bit… I guess they'd find some way to write that off – and get away with it.

By: jameswalsh

jameswalsh — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:52:59 +0000

After they were forced to pay AMD $1.25 billion you'd think they'd lay off a bit… I guess they'd find some way to write that off – and get away with it.

By: jameswalsh

jameswalsh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:45:24 +0000

Intel and Micro$oft are the kings of unfair business practices – now even Apple has fallen under Intel's spell. Is this the price of innovation? Their processors aren't even that good! People – don't run out and buy this. Instead – make the most of what you've got – try this http://tictacdo.com/ttd/Optimize-Your-Netbook There must be more than meets the eye – Intel has more than 85% of the mobile PC market share. Scary…

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By: ToniBorgetto

ToniBorgetto — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:58:25 +0000

I also find it rather hard to believe that Intel did not make a trademark search – Remember, this is the same company that has a history of vigorously going after anybody who even remotely looks like infringing on their own trademarks:
http://www.snarkhunting.com/2003/04/intel-trade…
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By: kangas

kangas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:49:58 +0000

I don't know why people are hating on Psion here. It seems to me that they have a very simple goal, which is really not contrary to anything we end-users want.

All Psion wants is for Intel or Dell to buy the trademark to the term "Netbook" from them. Full stop.

Of course, Intel and Dell would rather pay their own lawyers to fight and possibly invalidate the trademark. So Psion then needs to show that they have been using and defending the terms, etc. Round and round it will go.

Yes, I still have a dusty Psion 3a sitting somewhere at home. Neat machine. I wish to heck they hadn't discontinued their consumer hardware line, but Palm and WinCE ate their lunch in that era.

By: Linc (MonkeykIng)

Linc (MonkeykIng) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:28:01 +0000

Coming at this from another angle, Psion is in a weird spot even if they kept selling devices they really did seem to stop using or favoring the term netbook long ago. At this point they are a medium sized company in a very nice 'niche' of hand computer hardware for warehouses and factory floors, so why stick their heads up now? The nail that sticks up get pounded down. Psion does not need the term, and they certainly don't need to be spending big buck on lawyers to protect it.

Moreover we are seeing more and more companies switch over to other terms so Psion will be fighting this and laying out cash for lawyers on a term other companies are walking away from of their own accord. It is like Intel lured Psion in to this battle just as the rest of the industry is saying. “Meh, we need something better and up market anyway.”

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:48:46 +0000

I have said before that I have never liked the term netbook anyway so at least to me Psion can have the name if they want it. What Psion needs to do is put up or shut up. If you want to lay claim to the name then come correct and roll out a brand new netbook. They COULD HAVE been one of the first to market with an new ARM processor and Linux/WinCE model freshened for 2009 specifications but no, instead they choose to whine about their past glories… and the fact that new companies are blazing a path where they tread a long time ago.

Apple didn't have sour grapes over the Apple Newton did they? They just built new devices in other markets, even though other companies used their blueprint as a guideline for future success. And in the end, everybody won, no one whined like a Psion b-tch.

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:02:05 +0000

Cluthing at straws….

The netbook pro was realesed in 2003 and sold till 2008… I know this for a fact…

Also just a funny side, intel sold psion the CPU's for both…. StrongArm in the original netbook and xscale in the netbook pro. LOL.

By: samj

samj — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:55:46 +0000

Well even if they did they could well have written it off as abandoned (though it would have been a stretch to claim genericide before they got to it and that's not what they've said in their filings thus far).

It's true that they sought to speed up the discovery process (and bypass Psion in doing so), which would have been a great result given it would have allowed examination of their rather lofty claims. Unfortunately it wasn't allowed by the judge. The main filing though is their actual response to the counterclaim.

Sam

By: Mikez

Mikez — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +0000

I have dealt with Intel on (other) I.P. subjects since the 8080 – -
They checked, I would bet anything on that guess.

Most likely in my mind, the recent filing is just to force fuller
disclosure of the basis of Psion's claim of sales.

By: Had enough

Had enough — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:22:32 +0000

I think Don Henley summed up in “Get Over It”:
“The more I think about it, old billy was right
Lets kill all the lawyers, kill em tonight”

By: samj

samj — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:06:04 +0000

Even if they did it likely wouldn't even fall in to the “netbook” category at 4-5x ($1,299) the price of your average netbook.

By: racasper

racasper — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:01:22 +0000

I wish Psion would release a new model of their netBook.