Be sold copyrights and trademarks (among other things) to Palm that included terms like "BeOS" and "Geek Port", etc. But they continued to be a publicly held company. They did not give up their right to sue (nor could they). -----Original Message----- From: Isaac Yonemoto [mailto:ityonemo@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:43 PM Cc: 'openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [openbeos] Re: Name suggestion > Yes (asking Palm), and the lawyer representing Lindows is a friend of my > family, plus I just finished a law class on this topic. Didn't the press release say that Be retains "certain rights" -- like rights to the name, rights to antitrust suits, et cetera? I couldn't find it on the web site, or on archive.org. Isaac