{"id":40277,"date":"2011-12-23T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40277"},"modified":"2011-12-23T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T09:50:38","slug":"asus-sued-over-transformer-prime-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/40277-asus-sued-over-transformer-prime-name.html","title":{"rendered":"Asus sued over \u201cTransformer Prime\u201d name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hasbro\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/391443-Hasbro\">Hasbro<\/a>, the company who owns various trademarks relating to the term Transformer, has sued <a title=\"Asus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363482-Asustek\">Asus<\/a> over the name of the company&#8217;s new tablet device, the Transformer Prime.<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro currently has a pending trademark on the Transformer Prime name, and is worried that consumers could confuse the tablet device with their range of toys and action figures relating the successful cartoon and movie series.<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro released a statement saying, \u201cHasbro continues to aggressively protect its brands and products and the specific actions we are taking today against Asus underscores yet again Hasbro\u2019s willingness to pursue companies who misappropriate our intellectual property for their own financial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro is seeking damages from Asus, as well as a temporary injunction to prevent sales of the Asus tablet in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"MocoNews\" href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-toy-maker-sues-android-tablet-maker-over-transformer-tablet\/\" target=\"_blank\">MocoNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asus have been sued by toymaker Hasbro for using the Transformer Prime name for their latest Tablet PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":37869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[947,6571,7645],"class_list":["post-40277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-asus","tag-asus-transformer-prime","tag-hasbro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40277"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40279,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40277\/revisions\/40279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}