{"id":26025,"date":"2011-06-08T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=26025"},"modified":"2011-06-08T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T21:09:38","slug":"pc-maker-sues-google-over-chrome-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/26025-pc-maker-sues-google-over-chrome-pcs.html","title":{"rendered":"PC maker sues Google over Chrome PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small computer maker and patent holding company, ISYS  Technologies Inc., on Monday said it has filed a lawsuit against Google  Inc. to stop it from marketing PCs running its Google Chrome software  as &#8220;Chromebook&#8221; and &#8220;Chromebox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ISYS&#8217;s subsidiary Xi3 Corp. started using the term  ChromiumPC for a planned PC running Chrome or its Chromium variant in  2009, it said. Google is now opposing ISYS&#8217;s application for the  &#8220;ChromiumPC&#8221; trademark because it would confuse consumers, ISYS said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to resolve the dispute amicably with Google have reached &#8220;an impasse,&#8221; said ISYS, which is based in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Google did not reply to a message seeking comment on the suit.<\/p>\n<p>ISYS said it plans to have the ChromiumPC on the market  this fall. Chromebooks from Acer Inc. and Samsung Electronics are  expected to go on sale this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISYS Technologies said it has filed a lawsuit against Google to stop it from marketing PCs running its Google Chrome software as &#8220;Chromebook&#8221; and &#8220;Chromebox.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[36,167,837],"class_list":["post-26025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-chrome-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26029,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26025\/revisions\/26029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}