Thread: The Term "Netbook" Banned from Google Adsense Ads

The term "Netbook" is a Psion owned trademark. This term was first introduced by Psion whith their product Psion's Netbook Pro. Over the last 1-2 years the netbook market started evolving hugely and Psion kept warning about the trademarked term.

Now Google has banned the term "netbook" from being used in its adsense ads. this term has become a generic term for small laptops and notebooks and most manufacturers use this term. What will we call the small laptops from now on, if this term is killed? Some new term to this category of modern laptops needs to be coined.

The only way out is, if Psion sells this trademark which is not impossible considering the unsuccessful and unpopular products from them

Originally Posted by saurav_kataruka

The term "Netbook" is a Psion owned trademark. This term was first introduced by Psion whith their product Psion's Netbook Pro. Over the last 1-2 years the netbook market started evolving hugely and Psion kept warning about the trademarked term.

Now Google has banned the term "netbook" from being used in its adsense ads. this term has become a generic term for small laptops and notebooks and most manufacturers use this term. What will we call the small laptops from now on, if this term is killed? Some new term to this category of modern laptops needs to be coined.

The only way out is, if Psion sells this trademark which is not impossible considering the unsuccessful and unpopular products from them

i will say it book simple.

maybe shortbook might sound better or how about littlebook, half-book or something like that

or maybe shortie, shortbooktop, fingertop

Originally Posted by saurav_kataruka

The only way out is, if Psion sells this trademark which is not impossible considering the unsuccessful and unpopular products from them

They can always license it and claim royalty.

well ... for the time being it seems like most companies will keep using the term but google adsense will block ads with the keyword "netbook"

Frankly how many among u have heard the term psion related with *netbooks*earlier before?

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Frankly how many among u have heard the term psion related with *netbooks*earlier before?

i didnt. it was only after i read this news that i came to know about this.

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Frankly how many among u have heard the term psion related with *netbooks*earlier before?

I didn't knew of their existance!

Originally Posted by saurav_kataruka

The term "Netbook" is a Psion owned trademark. This term was first introduced by Psion whith their product Psion's Netbook Pro. Over the last 1-2 years the netbook market started evolving hugely and Psion kept warning about the trademarked term.

Now Google has banned the term "netbook" from being used in its adsense ads. this term has become a generic term for small laptops and notebooks and most manufacturers use this term. What will we call the small laptops from now on, if this term is killed? Some new term to this category of modern laptops needs to be coined.

The only way out is, if Psion sells this trademark which is not impossible considering the unsuccessful and unpopular products from them

Many of us believe that Psion's trademarks are worthless and as such Save the Netbooks" (www dot savethenetbooks dot com)Save the Netbooks campaign fights the impending trademark threat) has been established to fight them, particularly given their end-March deadline. Its first mission is to reverse the Google AdWords ban and the ball is in Google's court now.

Save the Netbooks campaign fights the impending trademark threat seems like the right initiative..

check out Save the Netbooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for more on savethenetbooks campaign.

@savethenetbooks

i am really glad that this thread got your attention.