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  • Trend Micro abandons Intercloud™ trademark application

    This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Just when I thought we were going to be looking at another trademark debacle not unlike Dell’s attempt at “cloud computing” back in 2008 (see Dell cloud computing™ denied)…

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  • Twitter Retries Registering Retweet

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Hopefully you’re not sick of hearing about Twitter, Inc’s trademark woes (and yet another alliteration) because yes, they’ve been at it again. Conceding that the USPTO has successfully torpedoed…

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  • “Twitter” Trademark in Trouble Too

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Yesterday I apparently struck a nerve in revealing Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed. The follow up commentary both on this blog and on Twitter itself was interesting and insightful, revealing…

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  • Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Last month Twitter founder Biz Stone announced in a blog post (May The Tweets Be With You) that they “have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached…

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  • NewsFlash: Trend Micro trademarks the Intercloud™

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of TrendMicro‘s InterCloud Security Service product when it was announced as a beta back on 25 September 2006 (for general availability in 2007):…

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  • CloudBurst Trademarked?

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that “CloudBurst” is one of my least favourite cloud computing buzzwords. Its intended meaning is something like when you run out of room in your own…

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  • Lessons learnt the likely loss of the “netbook” trademark

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Reposted from the Save the Netbooks Blog: There’s a number of things that Psion could have done to avoid losing the “netbook” trademark. For a start, trademarks relate to…

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  • Conspiracy theories about Intel’s role in the “netbook” craze

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The last few days working on Save the Netbooks have been enlightening to say the least. It’s surprising that something as mundane as a moniker for a generic class…

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  • Blogger fights Psion’s right to ‘netbook’ name

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The Register: Blogger fights Psion’s right to ‘netbook’ name‘Considerable chutzpah’ By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco Posted in PCs & Chips, 19th February 2009 01:44 GMT A campaign has been…

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  • Psion Teklogix may lose Netbook trademark

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Psion Teklogix, who own international trademarks on the term “netbook” relating to a product that was discontinued in 2003, had recently sent cease and desist letters to “literally hundreds”…

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