Trademarks
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 “Save the Netbooks” campaign is fighting the impending trademark threat from Psion Teklogix, who have given until the end of March 2009 to cease using the term, citing…
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.Many of you will remember Psion from their heydey of making PDAs and other consumer devices and will be surprised to see them being discussed in the context of…
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.Today is an important day in that it marks the 6 month anniversary of USPTO’s revocation of Dell’s Notice of Allowance for the infamous ‘Cloud Computing’ trademark #77139082 that…
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.USPTO have already denied Dell’s cloud computing trademark application: A non-final action has been mailed. This is a letter from the examining attorney requesting additional information and/or making an…
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.Does Dell deserve to be lynched for attempting to register the ‘cloud computing’ trademark? I guess that depends a lot on their motives (which we will likely never know).…
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.There’s been much ado over Dell’s (thus far unsuccessful) attempt to grab a large slice of the cloud computing landscape (‘clown computing’ is still available, thanks Dave), but it…
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.No sooner do I finish posting about Dell, USPTO and ‘Trademark Insanity’ than does USPTO go an update the status of the offending trademark: Current Status:The Notice of Allowance…
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 not even been a week since I revealed my discovery of Dell’s trademark application #77139082 in the cloud-computing Google Group, and a few weeks since I actually discovered…