Psion Drops Netbook Lawsuit

Netbook is the term coined by Intel in early 2008 for small, cheap, low-powered subnotebooks. However, late last year, Psion began issuing cease-and-desist letters to users of the word “netbook,” based on a trademark claim for the Netbook Pro (shown below), a device it no longer sells. Things escalated, all the way to a lawsuit by Psion against Intel, but it appears sanity has returned, as a settlement has been reached.On Monday, Psion issued a statement which said that the two companies had “settled the trademark

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