amiga company . for other uses see amiga disambiguation . amiga inc. type public founded 1996 headquarters issaquah washington key people bill mcewen products xpedio tablets amiga anywhere amigaos 4 website www.amiga.com amiga inc. is a company that holds some trademarks and other assets associated with the amiga personal computer originally developed by amiga corporation . contents 1 history 2 current 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit in the early 1980s jay miner along with other atari inc. staffers set up another chip set project under a new company in santa clara called hi toro later renamed to amiga corporation where they could have some creative freedom . atari inc. 1 went into contract with amiga for licensed use of the chipset in a new high end game console and then later for use in a computer system . 2 500 000 was advanced to amiga to continue development of the chipset . 3 in a breach of contract amiga negotiated with commodore international two weeks prior to the contract deadline of june 30 1984 . 4 in august 1984 atari corporation under jack tramiel sued amiga for breach of contract . the case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement . 5 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 1999 gateway sold amiga to amino development 6 for almost 5 million dollars . 7 gateway still retained ownership to all amiga patents . the owner of the trademark amiga inc. licensed the rights to make hardware using the amigaone brand to a computer vendor based in the uk eyetech group . however due to poor sales eyetech suffered substantial losses and ceased trading . 8 in 2010 commodore usa claimed to have acquired rights to use the amiga name on branded x86 linux computers 9 which however hyperion entertainment promptly disputed 10 on the basis of a 2009 settlement agreement between hyperion and amiga inc. current edit see also history of the amigaos 4 dispute amiga inc. holds some trademarks and other intellectual property related to the amiga personal computer that was developed by amiga corporation and commodore international . timeline of events 2007 04 29 amiga inc. revealed specs for a new amiga 11 2007 04 30 amiga inc. sued hyperion entertainment 12 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 . 13 hyperion s official statement 14 2007 05 07 amiga inc. revealed specs for a new high end amiga 15 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 . 16 2009 01 22 pentti kouri chairman of the board and a primary source of capital for amiga inc. passes away . 2009 09 30 amiga inc and hyperion entertainment reached settlement where hyperion is granted an exclusive perpetual worldwide right to amigaos 3.1 in order to use develop modify commercialize distribute and market amigaos 4.x and subsequent versions of amigaos including amigaos 5 . 17 2010 08 31 commodore usa announces they acquired the rights to the amiga name and relaunch amiga branded desktops running aros . 18 2010 12 13 after legal threats from hyperion due to conditions in the amiga inc. settlement that they are now subject to as an amiga licensee commodore usa later drop their aros plans and announce on their relaunched website that they will create a new os called amiga workbench 5.0 name changed to commodore os since workbench was owned by cloanto which was later revealed will be based on linux . 19 2011 amiga inc. licenses the brand name to hong kong based manufacturer icontain systems ltd. 20 amiga xpedio tablets amiga xpedio 10 mt amiga xpedio 10 mtl amiga xpedio 8 amiga xpedio 7 mt amiga all in one computers amiga sentio br amiga sentio ro amiga sentio klt 2012 amiga inc. completes transfer of copyrights to cloanto 21 22 see also edit amiga portal amiga inc. south dakota amiga corporation amiga computer amigaone amigaos 4 references edit http www.atarimuseum.com ahs archives archives pdf misc atari amiga contract.pdf permanent dead link atari corp. vs. amiga corporation permanent dead link u.s. santa clara california federal court march 6th 1984 contract between atari inc. and amiga corp. included in evidence filings . chira susan 29 august 1984 amiga s high tech gamble new york times new york new york retrieved 2010 11 27 atari sues over chips modesto bee modesto california p. 19 22 august 1984 retrieved 2010 11 27 company news ; atari commodore settle new york times new york new york 24 march 1987 retrieved 2010 11 27 amino development buys amiga name inventory from gateway . 1999 12 31 . retrieved 2010 09 03 . bouma mike 2002 10 08 . a closer look at morphos on the pegasos . osnews . archived from the original on 1 september 2010 . retrieved 2010 09 04 . amigaone news 20 answers with alan redhouse of eyetech . 2005 06 06 . retrieved 2010 09 03 . commodore outs linux running amiga mini desktop . archived from the original on 4 november 2010 . commodore gets rights to amiga hyperion takes legal action . retrieved 1 september 2010 . amiga news . amiga.com . retrieved 2013 12 03 . amiga inc v. hyperion vof justia dockets & filings . dockets.justia.com . retrieved 2013 12 03 . amiga inc. sues hyperion vof . amiganet.net . 2007 05 01 . retrieved 2007 05 02 . official statement on litigation with amiga inc . hyperion entertainment.biz . 2007 05 01 . retrieved 2013 12 03 . amiga news . amiga.com . retrieved 2013 12 03 . brunner jim 31 july 2007 . amiga fails to deliver cash loses naming rights to kent arena . the seattle times company . archived from the original on 29 september 2007 . retrieved 2007 08 02 . hyperion amiga inc. reach settlement all legal issues resolved . . osnews . 2009 10 17 . archived from the original on 19 october 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 18 . commodore usa to relaunch amiga brand with series of aros desktops . engadget . 2010 08 31 . archived from the original on 2 september 2010 . retrieved 2010 09 01 . introducing amiga workbench 5.0 . commodore usa . 2010 08 31 . archived from the original on 23 december 2010 . retrieved 2010 12 13 . press release on amiga.com . amiga inc. 2011 04 05 . retrieved 2011 10 07 . cloanto . amiga documents . retrieved 2015 02 20 . cloanto confirms transfers of commodore amiga copyrights . amiga news.de . retrieved 2015 02 20 . external links edit official website amiga licensee icontain . archived from the original on 5 november 2011 . retrieved 2011 11 05 . v t e amiga companies property owner amiga inc. original developer amiga corporation mainly hardware acube systems srl a eon technology genesi great valley products newtek mainly software hyperion entertainment metacomco other companies former amiga inc. south dakota commodore international escom eyetech gateway inc. phase5 xetec v t e amiga hardware history amiga models 680x0 based amiga cd32 commodore cdtv amiga 500 amiga 500 plus amiga 600 amiga 1000 amiga 1200 amiga 1500 amiga 2000 amiga 2500 amiga 3000 amiga 3000t amiga 3000ux amiga 4000 amiga 4000t powerpc based amigaone amigaone 500 amigaone x1000 unofficial 68k models minimig natami unofficial ppc models pegasos efika sam440ep sam440ep flex sam460ex sam460ex lite amiga prototypes walker power a5000 amiga chipsets original chip set ocs ranger chipset enhanced chipset ecs advanced graphics architecture aga amiga advanced architecture chipset aaa commodore aa chipset amiga hombre chipset amiga custom chips agnus blitter copper alice aga denise ocs lisa aga paula other amiga custom chips other hardware chip ram flicker fixer kickstart action replay amiga sidecar 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