Dell fights back against Psion netBook trademark rampage

From Ars Technica -

As most of you are aware, the booming sales of compact, low-cost, and low-margin notebooks, more commonly referred to as "netbooks" have convinced the owner of that term ("netbooks") to go trigger happy back in January in threatening just about everyone in its usage. Psion, a company that stopped selling a Windows-CE-powered "Psion netBook" in 2003, threatened journalists, manufacturers, and even bloggers in order to get them to stop using the term by the end of March 2009. It even convinced Google to ban the term from AdSense ads.

But now a grassroots effort has sprung up to fight the company, and Dell is lending a hand with a USPTO petition to cancel Psion's trademark. In a petition for cancellation filed at the USPTO, Dell puts forth three logical reasons for nullifying Psion's "netbook" trademark: abandonment, fraud, and genericness.

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