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Lawsuit: Cloanto is not entitled to sue (19. May. 2019)
After three previous setbacks, Cloanto again had to face a defeat in court in the legal dispute with Hyperion. According to the order of the court from 16th May (PDF file, 129 KB), Cloanto is not entitled to sue against Hyperion based on the Settleme...

Video interview: Mike Battilana (Cloanto) (03. May. 2019)
In February the managing director of Cloanto, Mike Battilana, succeeded in transferring all Amiga rights from Amiga Inc. to "C-A Acquisition Corp." which was founded by him. After that Stephen 'ClusterUK' Jones (e.g. Checkmate A1500 Plus) started a crowd ...

Lawsuit: Court order denying motion to enjoin C-A Acquisition Corporation (09. Apr. 2019)
After the failed registration of the trademark "Workbench" in the EU and the denied motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4, Cloanto has to deal with the third setback in a row: the court has denied enjoining C-A Acquisition Co...

Lawsuit: Court denies Cloanto's motion for preliminary injunction (04. Apr. 2019)
In the lawsuit between Cloanto and Hyperion yesterday the court has denied the motion for preliminary injunction against the sale of AmigaOS 3.1.4 (PDF file). After the futile attempt of registering the trademark "Workbench" also in the EU, this is t...

Cloanto: Registration of "Workbench" trademark in EU rejected (22. Mar. 2019)
Following the long-time ownership of the "Workbench" trademark in the USA, two years ago Cloanto also tried to register it at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This application was opposed by Hyperion Entertainment (amiga-news.de re...

Video podcast: Amiga Retro Cast on plans of the new Amiga entity (11. Mar. 2019)
Episode 24 of the Amiga Retro Cast is about the latest events concerning the licence to use Picasso96 in Amiga Forever (amiga-news.de reported). For this Douglas Compton exchanged e-mails with Mike Battilana of Cloanto, who recently acquired further ...

Legal dispute: Amiga Inc. transferred rights to company of Mike Battilana (05. Feb. 2019)
In the legal dispute between the Amiga and parties and Cloanto, recently Hyperion doubted the legality of Cloanto's involvement. According to the latest court documents (PDF file), on February 1, 2019, Amiga Inc. transferred "all worldwide rights, ti...

Lawsuit: Application for an interim injunction against Hyperion (28. Dec. 2018)
In the legal dispute with Hyperion Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported), Amiga Inc., Itec, Amino and Cloanto now have applied for an interim injunction. With the document (PDF file) Hyperion is supposed to be legally prohibted to sell AmigaOS ...

Lawsuit: Itec responds to Hyperion (08. Nov. 2018)
In the lawsuit with Cloanto, in March Hyperion did not just sue Cloanto but also all other "Amiga parties", that means all companies which since the year 2000 own or owned rights on Amiga and which all are contract partners of Hyperion: Amino (formerly Am...

AmigaOS 3.1.4: Download version unavailable again, physical edition announced (30. Oct. 2018)
Eleven days ago, the downloads of Hyperion's AmigaOS 3.1.4 were taken down: Amino had sent a Cease And Desist to Hyperion's eCommerce partner handling digital sales - the Amiga parties claim that Hyperion's 3.1.4 sales are violating their copyrights ...

Legal battle: Amiga Inc. resurrected from the dead (26. Oct. 2018)
While responding in the legal battle against Cloanto, Hyperion didn't just take Cloanto to court but all of the so-called "Amiga parties" as well - i.e. all companies that are or used to be owners of the Amiga IP since 2000 and that are parties of ...

AmigaKit registered trademark "A1200" (10. Jun. 2018)
The British dealer AmigaKit already had registered several trademarks with reference to Amiga in Great Britain (amiga-news.de reported). Now the trademark "A1200" was registered, too. In contrast, the application for registration of "SCSI2SD" was withdraw...

AmigaKit registers several trademarks, e.g. "Amiga Kit Gotek" (10. May. 2018)
At the beginning of 2017 Amiga, Inc. lost the US registration of the trademark "Amiga" due to inactivity. Afterwards Hyperion and Cloanto competed to diverse Amiga trademarks and are involved in several judicial proceedings. The British dealer and X5...

Hyperion sued Amiga Inc., Amino, Itec and Cloanto (19. Mar. 2018)
In the legal dispute about Amiga trademarks in USA and Europe, on 13th March in USA Hyperion sued all parties which are directly or indirectly involved. A request which still is not publicly available named "Complaint for Declaratory Judgement and Breach ...

Trademarks: Amiga Inc. renewed Europe registration of "Amiga" (09. Jan. 2018)
In respect of the dispute about different trademarks (amiga-news.de reported), in Europe today the registration of the trademark "Amiga" has been renewed by Amiga Inc. at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for another ten years. Be...

Legal dispute: a Statement by Hyperion and an open letter from two developers (31. Dec. 2017)
At the end of 2016, Amiga Inc.'s US registration of the "Amiga" trademark expired, which ultimately led to Hyperion and Cloanto competing for various Amiga marks on two different continents. The conflict resulted in Cloanto suing Hyperion in the US for tr...

Trademark disputes: Cloanto sued Hyperion in USA (27. Dec. 2017)
In the dispute about the rights of the trademark "Amiga" (amiga-news.de reported), this month Cloanto, for some years owner of the Commodore and Amiga copyrights, has sued Hyperion in the USA, where in January the company applied for this trademark. Reaso...

Emulator: Plugins for Amikit (12. Oct. 2017)
Ján Zahurančík, who in August registered the trademark "Amiga" in Slovakia , now offers an commercial "plugin" for his emulator distribution Amikit: For 4,95 Euro you get a collection of 13 new Workbench backgrounds ("themes") for the emulator. Two o...

Trademark disputes: yet another party wants to own "Amiga" (Update) (09. Sep. 2017)
In the US and Germany, the registration for the "Amiga" trademark already expired. It's still a registered mark in the EU until May next year, but nobody really expects the current owner to ever do something with that registration again. As a result, Hype...

Hyperion has AmigaOS 3.1 updates removed from the web (Update) (13. Aug. 2017)
Matthias 'DJBase' Münch was hosting the various updates for AmigaOS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9 on his site os.amigaworld.de after H&P switched off the official support websites for these products after their withdrawal from the Amiga market. Münch now anno...