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`27.Jul.2020`	Cloanto opposing registration of US trademark 'Amico' As documented in the database of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Cloanto is opposing the registration of the trademark 'Amico' by Intellivision Entertainment LLC. since February. The US branch of the Italian software developer registered the 'Amiga' mark in the US in 2017 after the original owner Amiga, Inc. let the registration expire. Intellivision Entertainment is the current user of the Intellivision trademark and plans to use the attention generated by the well-known brand name of Mattel's old console to release new gaming hardware called Amico. Promotion videos for the new console mostly feature (pseudo) 2D and retro inspired titles. Company head Tommy Tallarico is of italien heritage, the name of the new console is the italian word for 'friend'. Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana (Cloanto, Amiga Corporation) explains that this opposition was requested "by a contractual partner", and that he had no option but to heed the request. Normally it would have been executed via the new Amiga company, but since Hyperion has not released their US oppositions, and this is a US case, it had to be filed under Cloanto. (cg) [News message: 27. Jul. 2020, 23:02] [Comments: 1 - 30. Oct. 2021, 05:44] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2020`	C-A Acquisition Corp. renamed to Amiga Corporation In 2019 Mike Battilana (Cloanto) founded the C-A Acquisition Corp. and transferred the trademarks, copyrights and Internet domains he had acquired from Amiga, Inc. to this company. So far, amiga.com didn't show anything worth mentioning, but now several Amiga-related logos and a note that these brands are registered trademarks of "Amiga Corporation" have been added to the site. Approached by amiga-news.de, Mike Battilana confirms that "C-A Acquisition Corp." was renamed to "Amiga Corporation" but that it would remain discreet ("low profile will continue") until the [legal] issues are sorted out. He says the company is not completely inactive though, amongst other things it has been placing full-page advertisements in Amiga Future for more than a year. Battilana pointed out to a Twitter thread which can be used for directly asking him questions about Amiga Corporation or his plans for the Amiga. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Jul. 2020, 23:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jul.2020`	Changes in Hyperion's Management Last summer, distribution of Hyperion's shares drastically changed when the company issued a capital increase: New shares were issued to pay debts of nearly 400000 Euros owed to Ben Hermans - allegedly for the latter's work as the company lawyer. As a result of this, the other shareholders - in additon to Timothy de Groote, who is mentioned in public documentation, Trevor Dickinson, Costel Mincea and the Frieden Brothers are said to own shares - now collectively own less then three percent of the company. Shortly after that, Costel Mincea handed over (German) his AmigaOS 4 centric forum os4welt.de to a third party and resigned from his post as a director ("besturder") of Hyperion. The latter was not communicated publicly by either Mincea or Hyperion at the time, but with quite a bit of a delay the change in management is now recorded in Belgium's official company register (KBO, Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen): Only Timothy de Groote is listed as a "Besturder" for Hyperion now, the request to have Costel Mincea removed as a director (PDF, Dutch) is available as well. de Groote himself had increased his number of shares during the 2019 capital increase - albeit only by a very tiny amount, compared to Hermans' mass of additional shares. Now the author of the Amiga documents report claims on Twitter that Ben Hermans sued de Groote last November, a claim that is confirmed to amiga-news.de by a second source. The results of this legal battle are currently unknown. There are unconfirmed rumours that Timothy de Groote, who was still representing Hyperion at the Amiga 34 last October, resigned from his post as a director in the meantime and is only listed in that position until a replacement is found. So far we were unable to either verify or dispel these rumours. (cg) [News message: 15. Jul. 2020, 22:53] [Comments: 1 - 22. Sep. 2020, 07:10] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jul.2020`	Company history: Commodore's involvement in a financial scandal in 1965 Many users know that Jack Tramiel's company Commodore was experiencing financial difficulties back in the 60s and could only continue existing by the help of Irving Gould. That those financial difficulties are related to a financial scandal some users might know as well. But you cannot find detailed information in the Internet or in books. The brief summary of this story published by Brian Bagnall in his first part of Commodore's history encouraged the American "Zube" to look for more details. For a limited time he could read the 3000 page final report of the investigative commission which examined the crash of the Canadian financial institution Atlantic Acceptance Corporation - this finance company which in the middle of the sixties did hold many shares of the "Commodore Business Machines". In the text which "Zube" already published in 2007 he painted a very gloomy picture of the persons involved. But he explicitly states that he did not had sufficient time for reading the whole documents and that he is not an expert. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Jul. 2020, 23:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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