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Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Who owns it? by Announcer · · 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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  2. Re: Who would name a phone that? by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Having once bought 16K of RAM for a TRS-80 color computer ... that cost you, what, eleventy-six trillion dollars?

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  3. Re: Who would name a phone that? by mwvdlee · · Score: 2

    And with the speed of RAM back then, you would have been almost halfway to using all of that 32GB by now.

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  4. Re:Hrmm by Blaskowicz · · Score: 2

    And micro-SD go in more places than regular SD, but the latter is more easy to hold.
    This was senseless ranting ; every computer or device can have their needs satisfied in one way or another, so any new best thing wouldn't get hold on many computers or devices. Even generalizing an existing tech to every computer or devices doesn't get done. SD and full size USB are really close but it's uncommon to have them both - except if you constantly run into recent laptops, then it may be very common.

    My other rant would be lack of bluetooth on desktops. I am semi-suprised that I can't buy a bluetooth PCI card, damn everything else is available on PCI or PCIe. Yes that's a very petty qualm as there are tiny USB modules, and unused USB headers on every motherboard.

  5. Slightly unrelated by bickerdyke · · Score: 2

    Of course it was stupid to use trademarked names and symbols without caring about the trademark holders.

    On the other hand, selling trademarks without the actual products is a scam in itself. Since the 90s, a whole bunch of domestic TV makers went belly up. And without exempt, the trademarks were bought up by asian scammers that now slap these trademarks on cheap chinese TVs tricking elderly people (like my late uncle) into buying them at inflated prices as they thing they're buying some local quality products.

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