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Book: From Vultures to Vampires, Volume 2 available (09. Jul. 2023)
Two years after volume one of the "From Vultures to Vampires" books about Amiga history by former Commodore UK manager David Pleasance and A-EON Technology co-founder Trevor Dickinson, starting July 14 the second of in total three volumes will b...

Trademark exploitation: "Commodore" household appliances (07. Jul. 2023)
Apparently the most recent use of the brand name "Commodore" with a logo similar to the original can currently be found in MediaMarkt's advertising in Germany and Austria: on the one hand wet mopping robots in three variants and in Austria on the other ha...

Amiga Documents: Evidence of irregularities / Statement by Mike Battilana (07. May. 2023)
On the Twitter account "Amiga Documents" further documents concerning the parties in litigation Hyperion Entertainment CVBA and Amiga Corporation have been published. Among them is especially the proof (PDF file) of financial irregularities at the or...

Hyperion/Cloanto litigation: judgment in the main lawsuit issued (02. Apr. 2023)
Cloanto had sued Hyperion in 2017, initially to have a judge declare that the Italian company is the rightful owner of the "Amiga" mark and that Hyperion neither has the right to fight this trademark registration nor register similar marks like "Ami...

Advent Calendar: Door 13 - Richard Körber (13. Dec. 2022)
ust in time for lunch break, the 13th door of our Advent calendar opens. We may introduce: Richard 'Shred' Körber. This could be a record so far: Already on 04 May 1999 we reported (in German) about Richard Körber's newly established website "Palmiga...

Kickstarter campaign: 'Tank Mouse' officially licensed by Amiga Corporation (09. Mar. 2022)
Polish designer Lukas Remis had started a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of a wireless re-release of the Commodore Mouse 1352 (amiga-news.de reported). Although there are still 18 days left to reach the funding goal of 78,000 Euros, almost 74,000 Euro...

Windows: Alternative Amiga GUI available again (Update) (02. Jan. 2022)
At the title link, tech magazine computerbase.de reports briefly on the project of its forum member 'Silvester72', who has written his own "Amiga Workbench" implementation for Windows 10 and 11 that can be either used as a separate application or as a rep...

Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico (31. Oct. 2021)
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement...

Lawsuit: Hyperion's response to Evert Carton's testimony (29. Jul. 2021)
On June 25, 2021 Hyperion's co-founder and sole managing director during the settlement negotiations with Amiga Inc. in 2009, Evert Carton, was deposed by both parties' lawyers in the lawsuit of the plaintiffs Cloanto and the so-called Amiga parties ...

Lawsuit: Evert Carton on the settlement agreement from 2009 (18. Jul. 2021)
As requested by Cloanto and the Amiga parties, Evert Carton made a deposition in their lawsuit with Hyperion, the company he was a co-founder of. Plaintiffs' aim is to clarify the original intention of the settlement agreement (PDF file) signed in 2009 by...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Database entry for Amiga mark updated (09. Jul. 2021)
Already earlier this year, the "Amiga" trademark had been transferred to Amiga Corporation by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with regard to the USA (amiga-news.de reported). However, the USPTO trademarks database still had to be updated. This has be...

Amigakit threatening to oppose registration of 'Amiga Addict' mark in the UK (24. Jun. 2021)
British print magazine Amiga Addict started publishing half a year ago on a mostly monthly schedule. Back in February, publisher Simulant Systems Ltd. filed a trademark application for the magazine's name and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office ...

A-EON allegedly no longer has an AmigaOS 4 license (Update 2) (06. Jun. 2021)
For months, amiga-news.de has been receiving reports that the licensing agreement between Hyperion and A-EON expired at the turn of the year - and indeed the "X5000" product as well as all versions of AmigaOS have been removed from Amigakit's webstor...

Amiga Corporation: Statement regarding commercial distribution of AmigaOS 3.2 (29. May. 2021)
After the release of AmigaOS 3.2, it was stated that a digital edition might take a while to arrive, since Hyperion wants to create a window for dealers to generate some revenue with the CD version. This Thrusday, an anonymous source supplied a PD...

Lawsuit: separate motions by Hyperion and Amiga for a summary judgment (Update) (21. Mar. 2021)
While a joint motion from Cloanto and Hyperion to the court in January suggested that a settlement was imminent and only (quote) "ancillary documents" were left to be dealt with, both parties now submitted individual motions for a summary judgment indicat...

US trademark: "Amiga" now registered by Amiga Corporation (17. Feb. 2021)
Last autumn, Hyperion had withdrawn its opposition against Cloanto's registration of the US trademark 'Amiga'. According to current paperwork from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the mark is now properly registered. The document still lists ...

Hyperion withdraws opposition against registration of US trademark 'Amiga' (04. Sep. 2020)
In January 2017, Cloanto filed for registration of the 'Amiga' trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - right after the previous owner Amiga, Inc. let its own registration expire. Hyperion opposed that registration and filed for se...

Cloanto opposing registration of US trademark 'Amico' (27. Jul. 2020)
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' m...

C-A Acquisition Corp. renamed to Amiga Corporation (15. Jul. 2020)
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 A...

Amigakit offers "A1200" case badges (22. Jan. 2020)
Amigakit offers "A1200" case budges. For 2,23 Euro you get a case badge which is self-adhesive in colours of black/silver, silver or white/silver. If you have a closer look at the badge you can see a superscript, encircled "R" meaning a trademark. Ac...