About Trademarks of Chromebook

Google is currently occupied by Oracle's lawsuit against Android, must now be experiencing similar problems. This time the lawsuit related to trademark Chrome, Google's operating system for PCs. Plaintiffs are ISYS Technologies, which through its intellectual property managers filed a lawsuit against Google on Chrome trademark. Brand is owned by ISYS Xi3 ChromiumPC Modular Computer.

ISYS is the owner of Xi3 Corp., a business unit that makes ChromiumPC with Chromium base OS is open source and also developed by Google. This device uses a dual-core processor, so it can run operating systems Windows, Linux and other open source OS.

ISYS requested the sale of Google's partners such as Amazon and Best Buy stopped selling Chromebook made ​​by Samsung and Acer. ISYS claims to have patents for ChromiumPC and has registered trade mark and brand to the U.S. patent office in June 2010. No official statement from Google related to this issue, but rumors of Google's trademark was opposed to the ISYS.

According to schedule, notebook Chrome the OS will be out June 15. Samsung itself provides two series of its notebooks, the Samsung 5 Chromebook 3G ($ 499) and Wi-Fi version ($ 429). While Acer issued Chromebook Wi-Fi ($ 349). The plaintiff himself, ISYS, will issue Xi3 ChromiumPC on July 4th at a price not yet known.

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