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Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks on a broad front (update 2) (19. May. 2017)
It looks as if Cloanto's registration of the 'Amiga' mark filed in January in the USA will be contested by Hyperion: After the Belgium based company's attempts to register its own trademarks 'AmigaOS' and 'AmigaOne' failed, Hyperion now filed a request fo...

Hyperion: problems with the registration of new trademarks (11. May. 2017)
Due to Amiga, Inc's inactivity, the registration for the US trademark "Amiga" expired at the end of last year. Immediately afterwards, Cloanto applied to have the mark registered in their name, while Hyperion took a while longer to notice what was going o...

Interview with Timothy de Groote (Hyperion Entertainment) (08. May. 2017)
Under the title link, Generation Amiga has interviewed Timothy de Groote Hyperion Entertainment). He talked about the end of the trademark "Amiga" in Europe as well as about the shopping tour of Cloanto, acquiring former parts of Commodore (amiga-news.de ...

Trademark: Application of new "Commodore" refused (19. Apr. 2017)
Two years ago, Italian Massimo Canigiani tried to have the mark "Commodore" registered in the European trademark registry using his UK based company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.". Although the design of Canigiani's mark was pretty much identical to t...

Amiga Inc. loses US trademark, new registrations from Cloanto and Hyperion (17. Apr. 2017)
For years, Amiga, Inc. has been losing registered trademarks (examples: 1, 2) since expiring registrations were not renewed in time - but so far, only duplicate registrations or less important marks ("powered by Amiga") had been affected. On December...

Individual Computers lizenziert Commodore-Logo (31. Aug. 2016)
In a press release, Individual Computers announce they licensed the 'Commodore' trademark from its current owner Polabe Holding N.V. to distribute hardware under the legendary home computer brand. The first products mentioned are C64 cases built Commodore...

Aminet-Uploads until 07.05.2016 (08. May. 2016)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until May 7th, 2016: SQLMan.lha biz/dbase 8.5M MOS SQLite database manager HTTX.lha comm/www 111K 68k HTML to formatted text conver... NetSurf-m68k.lha comm...

'Amiga' no longer a registered trademark in Germany (01. May. 2016)
All over the world more than 60 Amga related trademarks are still registered with various local trademark offices (overview, PDF). For the vast majority of them, the owner is listed as 'Amiga Inc., New York'. But the registration of a trademark has to be ...

Crowd funding: Another A1200 case (14. Apr. 2016)
At Indiegogo, Jarno Smit has started a crowd funding project called "AMIGA CASE". It is a case which according to the description is "based on classic Amiga 1200" and "is meant as a replacement for the old (yellowed/damaged) Amiga 1200 case": AMIGA CASE l...

Trademark rights: Scene-World-Podcast-Interview with Commodore Business Machines (26. Sep. 2015)
In its 13th issue, the English-language podcast Scene World has interviewed Massimo Canigiani and Paolo Besser. Canigiani is chief executive officer (CEO) of "Commodore Business Machines Ltd." registered in Great Britain which is going to sell a commercia...

New Amiga 1200 case: Relaunch of Kickstarter project with "Amiga"-licence (03. Sep. 2015)
In July a Kickstarter project for a new Amiga 1200 case was established (amiga-news.de reported several times). During the campaign the project has been changed and improved several times but the aimed amount of money has not been achieved. Now the projec...

New "Commodore" trademark for Smartphones opposed (Update 2) (12. Aug. 2015)
A few months ago, Massimo Canigiani from Italy started presenting himself as the alleged new owner of the Commodor trademark. His newly established British based "Commodore Business Machines Ltd." was going to sell Commodore Smartphones to retro enthusias...

Trademark rights: "Commodore" announced PET-Smartphone (16. Jul. 2015)
In April the Italian Massimo Canigiani announced with his company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.", registered in Great Britain, plans for a Commodore-Smartphone. According to wired.com Canigiani alleged having "acquired" the trademark rights of the Com...

Trademark rights: "Commodore Business Machines" offline (27. Apr. 2015)
Only recently the Italian Massimo Canigiani founded "Commodore Business Machines". With the company he was going to develop a C64-inspired smartphone. According to Canigiani he had purchased the trademark "Commodore" probably making interfere the register...

Trademark recycling: Android smartphones from 'Commodore Business Machines' (06. Apr. 2015)
According to the Italian Wikipedia (automated translation) the "Commodore" trademark has been acquired by a Massimo Canigiani in 2014. If this is true or what "acquired" actually means is currently unknown to us. According to the EU trademark database, th...

Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights (19. Feb. 2015)
In the last few months, Cloanto started distributing Amiga System Software - the publisher traditionally refers to it as "Workbench" instead of "AmigaOS" - on CF cards, Floppy Disks and as a downloadable Workbench Disk Image Pack. Approached by ...

Cloanto: Workbench 3.1 Floppy Disk Set (03. Nov. 2014)
A few days ago, Cloanto started offering bootable CF cards containing Workbench 3.1. Meanwhile a floppy disk set is available, consisting of 6 DD disks (available from Vesalia, Amigakit and Amigastore.eu amongst others). Just like they did with the C...

Set-Top-Box: Android-based "Met@box" with Amiga emulator (01. Nov. 2014)
In the late 1990s, the German company PIOS (among others Stefan Dohmeyer, Dave Haynie, Peter Kittel) developed PPC-hardware for the operating system Apple and Amiga but devices like the PIOS One or the "AmiJoe" were never produced in series. After ch...

PC OpenSystems LLC has announced "Amiga OpenLinux" and AmigaOS support (01. Jul. 2013)
Roberto J. Dohnert from PC OpenSystems LLC did participate in an IRC-chat with Amiga users last night. Some hours before the chat, on amigaworld.net Dohnert published a list of those things realize for which he and his team are going to realize for A...

Linux-distributor is going to use label Amiga (update) (22. Jun. 2013)
Under os4online.com, for several years a commercial Xubuntu-based Linux distribution called "OS4 OpenLinux" has been offered. English-language users noticed that the distribution has the same name as the colloquial name for AmigaOS 4 (1, 2) - fi...