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Psion Defends "Netbook" Trademark

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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I recently joked that we might want to rename OSNews to CourtNews, and with each passing day that silly joke seems to become less silly. This week, it became clear that Psion Teklogix, the company behind various small computing devices back in the '90s, has started an all-out legal offensive to prohibit other companies from using the term "netbook".

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Comments (3)

tracyanne ·
They can keep the term. It doesn't really describe the "new class" of laptops/notebooks as the machines are, with the right OS far more powerful than simply appliances for "surfing" the web.
techiem2 ·
Yeah, anymore I'd say they are more appropriately put in the subnotebook class since that's really what they are.
caitlyn ·
The new netbooks aren't any different from the old small subnotebooks. Think the Toshiba Libretto series, the Mitsubishi Amity CN and CN2, and for those with really long memories the IBM PC-350. The difference, as Linus Torvalds pointed out in a recent interview, is that we used to pay a premium for extra small and lightweight machines. Now they are they least expensive things out there, one of the big reasons they've caught on the way they have.

Nobody thought of a Toshiba Libretto as crippled. It was just small. The same is true for most netbooks today.

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