found some nice Amiga 3D stickers for our cases!

[amigakit]

Any one that produces unlicensed products has not paid a licensing fee for the items they are selling. This disadvantages the businesses that goto great expense to pay for licensing.

Another example are Ebay sellers that sell Amiga 4GB CF IDE drives with unlicensed copied games/AmigaOS pre-installed on them.   Legitimate Amiga dealers could not do this but they are being disadvantaged by these individuals (who also dont pay any business taxes).

[amigakit]

@KThunder
I understand what you are saying.  The more official products available- the better for all of us.

@Leander
A good place to start would be Hyperion

[amigakit]

Thats correct: I believe they can use AmigaOne, AmigaOS and Boing Ball image

[amigakit]

I also share the pain of missed potential during the years after Commodore :-)

[amigakit]

The Boing Ball needs Hyperion's authority.  Hyperion are very much a current company.

Yes I agree, the situation has been fragmented and messy for years.

Even if Amiga Inc are a dormant business entity, their IP is still protected.  Although I fully understand that us in the Amiga community have been here for many years through the bad times and supported the true ethos of the Amiga computer and OS (regardless of whom owns the IP).

I dont see any difference between selling, for example, copied Workbench disks and unlicensed Amiga merchandise.  But if a link to a person selling copied Workbench disks were posted on Amiga.org, it would be removed immediately..  just another perspective?

[amigakit]

If we spend the time to set up the licensing and pay the royalty fee for stickers, that would have to be factored into the final selling price.  If we sold at the same rate at other unlicensed sellers, we would have greater costs to market.  Would this be fair?

Here is the link:
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134:hyperion-entertainment-cvba-and-amiga-inc-reach-settlement&catid=38:corporate&Itemid=18

Within the framework of the settlement agreement Hyperion is granted an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide right to AmigaOS 3.1 in order to use, develop, modify, commercialize, distribute and market AmigaOS 4.x (and subsequent versions of AmigaOS including without limitation AmigaOS 5) in any form, on any medium and for any current or future hardware platform under the exclusive trademark “AmigaOS” (Amiga operating system) and using other associated trademarks (such as the “BoingBall” logo).

[amigakit]

Its a good suggestion, we will look into it.

[amigakit]

A quick search will reveal this:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4008:fio9qg.3.1
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:bd746g.2.1

[amigakit]

Search for Serial Numbers:

78940417 and 78940434

The color(s) red and white is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of the design of a checkered ball. The mark consists of a ball logo, in which the color red appears in the checkered design within the ball design of the mark, and the color white appears in the checkered design within the ball design of the mark.