Coby netbook- oh yes they did apply for a trademark
Remember not too long ago when the word went out that Coby Electronics was going to produce a netbook device? The company stepped in and said they weren’t going to do such a thing. So why did they apply for a trademark? This from a trademark search:
| Word Mark | COBY NETBOOK |
| Goods and Services | IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: portable personal computers |
| Standard Characters Claimed | |
| Mark Drawing Code | (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK |
| Serial Number | 77590174 |
| Filing Date | October 10, 2008 |
| Current Filing Basis | 1B |
| Original Filing Basis | 1B |
| Owner | (APPLICANT) Coby Electronics Corp. CORPORATION NEW YORK Suite 301 1991 Marcus Avenue Lake Success NEW YORK 11042 |
| Attorney of Record | Caroline G. Boehm |
| Type of Mark | TRADEMARK |
| Register | PRINCIPAL |
| Live/Dead Indicator | LIVE |
Great, now Psion can sue them too!
Oh. Now thats an interesting new twist.
Read the Wikipedia article… netbook stems from… Microsoft… aaahhhggrrr!!!!!!
Unfortunately Coby’s application was intially refused on 13 January by USPTO citing section 2(d) – likelihood of confusion with Psion’s mark #2404976
Incidentally MSI’s ‘Wind Netbook’ application was similarly rejected a few days earlier.