Amiga, Inc.

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Amiga, Inc.
Type
Founded
Headquarters	Issaquah, Washington
Key people	Bill McEwen
Products	AmigaOS 4, AmigaOne, AmigaAnywhere
Website	www.amiga.com

Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation), including the Amiga trademark.

1 Brief history of Amiga brand
2 Current
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Brief history of Amiga brand

In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga, Inc.), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, under Jack Tramiel, skirted with purchasing Amiga Corporation, but it was eventually bought by Commodore International. (See "Amiga Corporation".)

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1996. The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 2000, Gateway dropped the Amiga brand.

The current owner of the trademark, Amiga Inc., has licensed the rights to make hardware using the Amiga brand to a UK computer vendor, Eyetech Group. Eyetech sold the AmigaOne via an international dealer network. The AmigaOne was a PowerPC computer designed to run AmigaOS 4.0, which was itself licensed to a Belgian-German company, Hyperion Entertainment. However, after poor sales and continuing hardware problems with the AmigaONE, Eyetech ceased trading.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Current

Amiga, Inc. holds the intellectual property related to the Amiga personal computer that was developed by Amiga Corporation and Commodore International; hardware designs, software, operating system, trademark, etc.^{[citation needed]} Amiga, Inc. also states they "produce and distribute enabling technologies and applications for wired and wireless devices."

Timeline of events:

2007-04-29:

Amiga Inc revealed specs for a new Amiga [1]

2007-04-30:

Amiga Inc has sued Hyperion VOF [2] for trademark infringement in the Washington Western District Court in Seattle, USA. Amiga Inc. sued Hyperion for breach of contract, trademark violation and copyright infringement concerning the development and marketing of AmigaOS 4.0.^[1] Hyperion's official statement [3]

2007-05-07:

Amiga Inc revealed specs for a new high end Amiga [4]

2007-07-31:

Amiga Inc was dumped as the naming-rights sponsor for a planned hockey arena in Kent, Washington due to failure to deliver a promised down payment the previous Monday.^[2] Seattle Times Article [5]