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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #29 on: February 22, 2014, 08:51:11 AM »
Hello All,

Would like to see Hyperion take these people to court! HA HA

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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2014, 03:20:47 PM »
Do we talk about chinese market?
What impact has Hyperion on chinese market, especially on mobile market, and do they have trademarks registered in china?
Legal actions against them would be fighting like a kid that is spitting at a box champion.

Is AmigaOS registered for mobile devices too?

Well, they may try to walk the SCO way, sueing them annoyingly, for being bought as part of an agreement outside the court.
 
SCO failed.:D
 

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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #31 on: February 22, 2014, 08:42:21 PM »
Oooooo, a possible trademark violation in China?  Who'd a thought?
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #32 on: February 22, 2014, 08:50:31 PM »
Unless you are really big, a Trademark only covers certain industries, the ones you are actively producing products in.  An Amiga washing machine would not be covered by Amiga Inc's trademark, but of course a toaster might....

But if you are well known and have good lawyers then it's different.  A Microsoft Washing Machine would be hit by so many lawyers it's head would be in  a permanent spin cycle....

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Would like to see Hyperion take these people to court! HA HA

http://www.amigonefuneralhome.com/

Thanks in advance,
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2014, 10:01:28 PM »
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Some lamer phone company is infringing Hyperion's AmigaOS trademark with their so-called "AmigoOS" operating system:

http://www.gsmarena.com/gionee_elife_s55_is_the_thinnest_smartphone_in_the_world-news-7859.php

Has this been brought to Hyperion's attention? IANAL, but it look to me like a clear case of trademark infringement, in the same way Lindows was deemed to be an infringement of the Windows trademark. There's a requirement to defend trademarks in situations such as this or they become diluted and eventually invalid.

LOL, that 'lamer' phone company is probably making more money than HYPErion could ever dream of...

Really, who cares?
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #34 on: February 23, 2014, 02:44:33 AM »
I'll wait and see, if the "lame" phone maker (first tier luxury cell phone producer in the east) strikes back, take legal action against pitifull nameless os maker, and force them to change AmigaOS into something less "infringing" like HyperOS. Yeeeks, i gonna p my pants if this is gonna happen. :roflmao:
 

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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2014, 07:39:03 AM »
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Do we talk about chinese market?

It's being released in 40 other countries, not just China.

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SCO failed.

I don't see any connection at all between this situation and the SCO case, wasn't the SCO case largely or entirely about copyright infringement, not trademarks? Plus of course their case was very weak and the case here is very strong.

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I'll wait and see, if the "lame" phone maker (first tier luxury cell phone producer in the east) strikes back, take legal action against pitifull nameless os maker, and force them to change AmigaOS into something less "infringing" like HyperOS.

Yes, unfortunately that's a possible scenario in the future if Amino/Hyperion fail to defend the trademark.
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2014, 12:29:00 PM »
Why are so many hell-bent on seing Hyperion fail?
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2014, 01:39:03 PM »
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It's being released in 40 other countries, not just China.

If you don't find a way to stop a company in their homeland, you have to take legal actions against infringement in every country, one by one.

I've started investigating to find out the current owner of an AmigaOS related trademark. Let' start in the U.S.A.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:i46rnk.6.14

That's the only information regarding the U.S., and   ....
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Well, does anyone knows anything about the remaining 39 countries? :D
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #38 on: February 23, 2014, 01:48:47 PM »
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Why are so many hellbend on seing Hyperion fail?

No one wants to see them fail. It's you not getting the joke behind all that.
Remember that, despite X1000 and OS4, the only continued products branded "AMIGA" are :
-legal actions
-copyright claims
-announcements
-restarts
-vapourware
-smoke and mirrors.

Before you take this too serious, help me finding registered trademarks in 40 countries, that belongs to any of the mentionend companies. ;)
 

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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #39 on: February 23, 2014, 01:50:30 PM »
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If you don't find a way to stop a company in their homeland, you have to take legal actions against infringement in every country, one by one.

I've started investigating to find out the current owner of an AmigaOS related trademark. Let' start in the U.S.A.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:i46rnk.6.14

That's the only information regarding the U.S., and   ....
  ... IT'S DEAD, JIM !!
 
Well, does anyone knows anything about the remaining 39 countries? :D



http://aminet.net/search?query=trademark

This is in need of an update, but you'll find it a good place to start.

Beyond that we have trademark attorneys pop in to Amigaworld to post, and a search of that site should give you more info.

one example from 2012

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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #40 on: February 23, 2014, 03:29:56 PM »
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No one wants to see them fail.


I wish that were so, but on this forum there are many people who want exactly that.
The more Amigalike OSes there are the stronger we all are, but still the forums are full of sniping and attacking... it's a real shame.
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #41 on: February 23, 2014, 03:32:35 PM »
I've been waiting four whole years for Bill and Ben to sue me in the Iranian courts for trademark infringement. ;)
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #42 on: February 23, 2014, 03:35:47 PM »
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I wish that were so, but on this forum there are many people who want exactly that.
The more Amigalike OSes there are the stronger we all are, but still the forums are full of sniping and attacking... it's a real shame.

That would be the case had Hyperion not completely changed the API in OS4.

Porting between 68k Amiga OS, AROS and MorphOS is quite straightforward but from OS4 to the others is a PITA.
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
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Re: Infringement of AmigaOS trademark
« Reply #44 from previous page: February 24, 2014, 09:40:19 AM »
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So are Lindows and Windows; there is no need for them to be identical.

This isn't how the Lindows vs Windows went down anyhow.  Microsoft lost that case, and then basically paid them to change the name to Linspire.

"In 2002 Microsoft sued Lindows, Inc. claiming the name Lindows constituted an infringement of their Windows trademark. Microsoft's claims were rejected by the court, which asserted that Microsoft had used the term windows  to describe graphical user interfaces before the Windows product was  ever released, and that the windowing technique had already been  implemented by Xerox and Apple Computer many years before.[7] Microsoft sought a retrial and after this was postponed in February 2004,[8]  offered to settle the case. As part of the licensing settlement,  Microsoft paid an estimated $20 million, and Lindows, Inc. transferred  the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed its name to Linspire, Inc.[9]" - From Wikipedia.

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