Psion and Intel have settled their legal battle over the use of the word "Netbook." Since early 2008, chipmaker Intel has been using the term to refer to small, cheap, low-powered sub-notebooks, and ...

This week news broke that Psion, the company that got a trademark on the term “netbook” more than 10 years ago has apparently decided to begin enforcing that trademark. Never mind the fact that Psion ...

It looks like we’re in for what could be a long and protracted legal battle over the right to use the word “netbook” for commerce purposes. Because it doesn’t look like either Intel or Psion are going ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Psion Teklogix, based in Mississauga, Ontario, first filed for a trademark on the term netbook in 1996 and began using it in 1999, and amended it in September of 2000. In November of 2006, Psion ...

In the ongoing clash between netbook manufacturers, the courts and Psion, the latter has delivered the next blow. Even though they are facing down Dell, Intel and others who are trying stop Psion's ...

Taking one for the team? It's been a busy week for the tech industry's lawyers. Intel did its bit earlier in the week and now Dell has decided that it's offended by the ownership of ‘Netbook' as a ...

Psion has countersued Intel, defending its claim to the netbook tradmark, unveiling a somewhat suspect table of netBook revenues, and demanding triple all Intel's profits on netbook products (some ...

Intel has denied that Psion has any rights in the term 'netbook'. The allegations, made in Intel's response to Psion's counterclaims, deal a further blow to the Canadian company whose rights have also ...

Intel has forced Psion Teklogix to withdraw its NETBOOK trademark registrations. However, Psion has not declared that it is waiving its rights in its home country Canada and other jurisdictions around ...