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Amiga Documents: Evidence of irregularities / Statement by Mike Battilana (07. May. 2023)
On the Twitter account "Amiga Documents" further documents concerning the parties in litigation Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Corporation have been published. Among them is especially the proof (PDF file) of financial irregularities at the or...

Hyperion/Cloanto litigation: judgment in the main lawsuit issued (02. Apr. 2023)
Cloanto had sued Hyperion in 2017, initially to have a judge declare that the Italian company is the rightful owner of the "Amiga" mark and that Hyperion neither has the right to fight this trademark registration nor register similar marks like "Ami...

Guest article: Trevor's personal review of the Amiga37 (30. Oct. 2022)
Trevor Dickinson traveled from New Zealand to present A-EON and AAA Technology at Amiga37, which took place two weeks ago. We asked him for his impressions of his stay in Germany and the event, which he has described to us below. Many thanks to Trevor. ...

Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony (29. Jul. 2021)
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties ...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...

Hyperion: Ben Hermans temporarily relieved from director position (29. May. 2021)
After Timothy de Groote had been delisted as a Hyperion director, Ben Hermans was entered into the company register as Hyperion's sole manager. But in contrast to his predecessors, he wasn't listed as a "besturder" (director): his position is that of ...

Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 (29. May. 2021)
After the release of AmigaOS 3.2, it was stated that a digital edition might take a while to arrive, since Hyperion wants to create a window for dealers to generate some revenue with the CD version. This Thrusday, an anonymous source supplied a PD...

Lawsuit: Cloanto applies for admittance of Evert Carton as witness (23. May. 2021)
Regarding the lawsuit with Hyperion, Cloanto and the Amiga parties applied to vacate and reset the pre-trial calendar (PDF file). Given the differing motions for a summary judgement by Hyperion and themselves, respectively, and that they do not know which...

Lawsuit: separate motions by Hyperion and Amiga for a summary judgment (Update) (21. Mar. 2021)
While a joint motion from Cloanto and Hyperion to the court in January suggested that a settlement was imminent and only (quote) "ancillary documents" were left to be dealt with, both parties now submitted individual motions for a summary judgment indicat...

US trademark: "Amiga" now registered by Amiga Corporation (17. Feb. 2021)
Last autumn, Hyperion had withdrawn its opposition against Cloanto's registration of the US trademark 'Amiga'. According to current paperwork from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the mark is now properly registered. The document still lists ...

Lawsuit: Hyperion und Cloanto allegedly close to a settlement again (22. Jan. 2021)
A year ago, Hyperion and Cloanto asked the judge presiding their lawsuit to extend a deadline because they were allegedly close to finalizing a settlement. A few days later, the negotiations were aborted. In another motion dated January 20th, both Pa...

Hyperion withdraws opposition against registration of US trademark 'Amiga' (04. Sep. 2020)
In January 2017, Cloanto filed for registration of the 'Amiga' trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - right after the previous owner Amiga, Inc. let its own registration expire. Hyperion opposed that registration and filed for se...

Cloanto opposing registration of US trademark 'Amico' (27. Jul. 2020)
As documented in the database of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Cloanto is opposing the registration of the trademark 'Amico' by Intellivision Entertainment LLC. since February. The US branch of the Italian software developer registered the 'Amiga' m...

New orders in legal dispute between Cloanto and Hyperion (13. Feb. 2020)
In the last two trials between (among others) Cloanto and Hyperion, which both are tried by the same judge, new orders have been given. Die the action for infringement of trade mark rights C-A Acquisition Corp and Cloanto against Hyperion, in which both p...

Settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion aborted (11. Feb. 2020)
As amiga-news.de has been told by several sources, the settlement discussions between Cloanto and Hyperion regarding a settlement agreement have been aborted without tangible results last week. As far as we know, the next step to avoid a lengthy and costl...

Hyperion and Cloanto allegedly close to finalizing settlement (02. Feb. 2020)
In one of the two remaining lawsuits between - amongst others - Hyperion and Cloanto, all involved parties submitted a joint request last Friday, asking to extend a deadline set by the Judge for one week, since (quote) "Business representatives ...

Available documents from the lawsuits between Cloanto and Hyperion (27. Jan. 2020)
Since the documents from the three lawsuits between Cloanto, the Amiga parties and C-A Acquisition Corporation on one side and Hyperion on the other side are not available free of charge, the few documents that made it onto the net are hosted on various p...

Vampire team distributed pirated software during 'Vampire Standalone' launch (04. Nov. 2019)
For years, a customized, unlicensed distribution of AmigaOS 3.9 targeting the FPGA based 'Vampire' accelerators and Amiga clones has been available on the net. The package comes with tons of preinstalled software - including hundreds of games and pro...

Acquisition of Amiga: Summary of Mike Battilana's speech at Amiga34 (Update) (01. Nov. 2019)
At the "Amiga 34" in Neuss, Mike Battilana spoke at last. On the timetable he was not announced as "Cloanto" but due to his acquisition of the rights from Amiga Inc. as "Amiga". We want to summarize the most important facts of his speech: Mike Battil...

Legal dispute: Settlement discussions (09. Oct. 2019)
In the legal dispute between Hyperion and Cloanto the court has accepted an application of both parties for a delay of 120 days (PDF file) because they are discussing a settlement. ...