Commodore USA

[djrikki]

Breaking news from 2 days ago: (I hope someone hasn't posted it already)

Seems Commodore USA intend to advertise on US TV lol

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/commodore-usa-appoints-korey-kay-102977849.html

What fails to amuse is the paragraph:

"About Amiga Inc.
Amiga Inc. holds the intellectual property related to t he AMIGA personal computer that was developed and sold by Commodore International and Amiga Corporation, including hardware designs, software, opera ting systems, trademarks, and other intellectual properties. Amiga Inc. also produces and distributes enabling technologies and applications for wired and wireless devices that provide technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system that is hardware agnostic, enabling applications to run unchanged on x86 and other processors. States Bill McEwen, CEO/Pres, " We at Amiga are pleased to once again be par t of the great plans and products at Commodore USA. This is just the beginning of something great."

The inclusion of the words 'software' and 'operating system' is rather suspect.

[djrikki]

Hyperion DOES NOT own AmigaOS or Amiga OS trademark rights...

You said the same thing on AW after I gave you the link proving the opposite.

Perhaps yet again... selective reading.

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

"As part of the settlement agreement, the Amiga Parties acknowledge that Hyperion is the sole owner of AmigaOS 4 without prejudice to any third party rights."

[djrikki]

Hyperion have an exclusive license to the name AmigaOS, Amiga Inc own the name, but essentially have given up the right to actually use it.  The Amiga name belongs to Amiga Inc and they have given an exclusive license to use it to CommodoreUSA, so essentially Amiga Inc cannot produce an operating system or a computer.  But since they never actually produced either of these in the past, it shouldn't be a problem....

"Hyperion have an exclusive RIGHT..."

Once again why do people feel the need to edit the original wording.  A 'license' is different to a 'right'.

Essentially Hyperion won the right to use AmigaOS (etc...), Amiga Inc didn't 'give it up' - it was taken from them in a court of law.  The rest of your paragraph is correct. :rtfm: