Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition

Posted by timothy on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:54AM from the but-what-about-my-new-disney-nuclear-plant? dept.

damnbunni writes: As reported on amiga-news.de, it appears that Massimo Canigiani didn't license the Commodore trademarks before announcing that Commodore PET Smartphone. The company that actually owns the mark, Commodore Holdings, is not amused. It's not like it would have been hard to determine who owns it and try to license. The C= Holdings trademark is registered with the same EU agency 'CBM Limited' applied for a new mark. I can't see much of an excuse here. The company holding Commodore's trademarks is literally Commodore Holdings. They can't even say "We had NO IDEA who to contact!"

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Who owns it? by Announcer · 2015-08-14 11:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

I have a page where I put up a bunch of info about my experiments and memories of my Commodore systems. In the years that page has existed, the ownership of the C= logo/name/etc changed hands FIVE TIMES! Just now, I Googled it, and got this page:
http://www.commodorecorp.com/
It hasn't been updated since 2013.
My attempt at a disclaimer is at the bottom of this page:
http://webcache.googleusercont...
(Google cached, to prevent Slashdotting my Host's server.)

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