According to GigaOM, jkOnTheRun broke the news that Psion Teklogix, owner of the “Netbook” trademark, was sending cease-and-desist (C&D) letters to some blogs and smaller web sites.

The news stirred up enough controversy that Psion’s law firm, Origin, sent a response to jkOnTheRun to clarify a few points. For instance they said that they are only going after entities that are “making a direct, financial profit from use of the ‘Netbook’ trademark”.

They clarified that 95 percent of the C&D letters were sent to “retailers and manufacturers using the ‘Netbook’ trademark (including the very largest players in this space”. And the rest of the C&D notices have gone to people who have “sponsored advertising or other for-profit links”. In cases of people using contextual advertising (read: Google ads).

So in actual fact, no letters have been sent to blogs, tech enthusiast sites or review sites. Psion is just going after retailers and manufacturers and NOT bloggers.

Since Psion owns the ‘Netbook’ trademark, what am I to call netbooks now?