Smartbook doesn’t want bloggers to use the term “smartbook.” Good luck with that.
The Germany-based seller of laptops owns a trademark on the word in most of Western Europe, Australia, Singapore, South Korea and two other countries, according to TechCrunch, but the term has been adopted by the industry to describe a device that falls somewhere between a smart phone and a netbook.
This will likely turn out the same way Twitter’s attempt to prevent use of the word tweet ended up.





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