Remember our previous coverage on the ensuing battle over the netbook trademark? First Dell sued Psion for trying to enforce it's netbook trademark name, then Intel joined the party and sued Psion. Now Psion has done the ridiculous and counter sued Intel for an astonishing $1.2 billion dollars in damages.
Engadget highlights a few interesting points about the suit including this tidbit:
the numbers seem to add up oddly at all the wrong times, with $2m of Netbook accessories sold in 2006, three years after the product went off the market, and just 4100 total Netbooks sold over 10 years
Honestly how could they have sold $2 million dollars worth of accessories when they only sold only 4,100 Netbooks in the 10 year course of the product's existence. They're also trying to take the netbook.com domain name from Intel as well (lol).
This is a pretty funny case and if it were possible to bet on pending legal battles my money is on Intel and Dell - especially considering the resources they will pour the money in to dominate Psion in court.
I'd love to hear some comments on this one. What do you think?
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