Comments on: Dell: Netbook Term Can’t Be Trademark http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dag http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark/comment-page-1#comment-18524 Dag Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:20:38 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12226#comment-18524 This is so current why are we not using it now? This is so current why are we not using it now?

]]> By: ikkefc3 http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark/comment-page-1#comment-17747 ikkefc3 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:13:11 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12226#comment-17747 I regret this. If Dell wins, another chance to get rid of the "netbook" term is lost (I don't like the term), but mini-notebook is just ridiculous. They use that term everywere in The Netherlands and I don't like it. It just doesn't sound right. I regret this. If Dell wins, another chance to get rid of the “netbook” term is lost (I don’t like the term), but mini-notebook is just ridiculous. They use that term everywere in The Netherlands and I don’t like it. It just doesn’t sound right.

]]> By: Nicolas Grignon http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark/comment-page-1#comment-17745 Nicolas Grignon Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:50:30 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12226#comment-17745 How about a WEBook? ten of thousand millions lawsuit avoided and everybody's happy.... (maybe I should patent this one... ;-)) seriously, some comon name shouldn't be allowed a patent, what next: patent the color RED? How about a WEBook? ten of thousand millions lawsuit avoided and everybody’s happy…. (maybe I should patent this one… ;-) ) seriously, some comon name shouldn’t be allowed a patent, what next: patent the color RED?

]]> By: schnapp http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark/comment-page-1#comment-17739 schnapp Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:21:00 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12226#comment-17739 "If Dell does not win, then either the entire industry will have to go with another term (we suggest “mini-notebook”)." No dude! you readers are users, not manufacturers. We (and you?) will bloody well call them what we bloody well feel like, 'mkay? Thus making the term generic, by the way. Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook! “If Dell does not win, then either the entire industry will have to go with another term (we suggest “mini-notebook”).”

No dude! you readers are users, not manufacturers. We (and you?) will bloody well call them what we bloody well feel like, ‘mkay? Thus making the term generic, by the way.

Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!Netbook!

]]> By: Save the Netbooks http://blog.laptopmag.com/dell-netbook-term-cant-be-trademark/comment-page-1#comment-17729 Save the Netbooks Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:26:40 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12226#comment-17729 Ok so there are (at least) two problems with your "mini-notebook" suggestion: 1> A Netbook is an "Internet Notebook" (a portmanteau). Size doesn't matter and indeed as evidenced by the rapid tread away from small screen sizes, a large screen is an assed for Internet. Nor does price - there's nothing wrong with having a dedicated browsing device of Apple quality (and cost). That rules out most of the alternative suggestions for which there are perfectly good alternatives like subnotebook or ultra-portable. 2> By the time this decision is made there will be (according to analyst estimates) over 25,000,000 netbook users in the wild and another 100,000 added every day. How do you plan to educate them that their netbook isn't a netbook? What about the massive windfall for Psion suddenly becoming the only vendor allowed to sell a machine under this moniker? Do they deserve that? And the industry that has built up around the term? Better we just stand our ground and get this over and done with. Save the Netbooks Ok so there are (at least) two problems with your “mini-notebook” suggestion:

1> A Netbook is an “Internet Notebook” (a portmanteau). Size doesn’t matter and indeed as evidenced by the rapid tread away from small screen sizes, a large screen is an assed for Internet. Nor does price – there’s nothing wrong with having a dedicated browsing device of Apple quality (and cost). That rules out most of the alternative suggestions for which there are perfectly good alternatives like subnotebook or ultra-portable.

2> By the time this decision is made there will be (according to analyst estimates) over 25,000,000 netbook users in the wild and another 100,000 added every day. How do you plan to educate them that their netbook isn’t a netbook? What about the massive windfall for Psion suddenly becoming the only vendor allowed to sell a machine under this moniker? Do they deserve that? And the industry that has built up around the term?

Better we just stand our ground and get this over and done with.

Save the Netbooks

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