You people seriously need your heads beating.
MarkTime, you are seriously out of touch. "Amiga" is not a generic term for alternative operating systems. It's a SPECIFIC term for a very SPECIFIC range of computers, operating systems, and associated technologies.
On that note, It doesn't matter that it's a word in the Spanish dictionary. Windows is a word in the English dictionary but Microsoft have a trademark on that. Intuition was too, how do you trademark immediate cognition?
You don't. Trademarks are not people snatching dictionary terms. It's about services and competition.
Trademarks are simply words which associate uniquely with your product in a specific marketplace, the point being that the unique association is protected by law.
This stops some other company coming along and selling stuff under your name, or similar.
For instance if I created a system now called the Genesi GameCube, as a small box that had a wired controller and played games, and started selling it, I'm sure Nintendo would send a band of Yakuza after me to make sure I never did it again.
If I made a Playstation and it was a baby toy with bells and buzzers and Korean-accented voices, Sony might be annoyed too, because you would be stealing their momentum and familiar brand name to advertise your product.
You see, people might be under the misguidance that the Tomy Play-Station, even though it's not a games console, was getting a bit close seeing as it is a child entertainment device.
But if I marketed a set of cat carriers and called them "Amiga Carriers", then Amiga Inc. couldn't sue me for it or even complain. There is no company association in the cat carrier market that Amiga Inc. can defend.
Note that there are plenty of "Lego" clones out on the market, but none of them will ever mention the word Lego. They may be compatible but they won't mention it directly..
So, basically, if Amiga do not hold the trademark, then anyone can use it without fear of legal retribution. In the Lego case, we could put a big sign on it saying "Works with all your old Lego!", which would normally be infringing their trademark (using their established brand to sell your product) but if they didn't own it then they can't protect it.
Who does own the trademark? Well.. we'll see. It would be hilarious if BBRV actually are successful in the application, since he could wipe Amiga Inc. out if he wanted to.
He's not that cruel, though, all you Amigans can breathe a sigh of releif.
I saw he was offering it to Wayne. THAT is something you can all be nervous about
