on the menu today i think that if you'd presented me with with both names from the very beginning
i would have probably picked this new one the new name for the commander x16 is
welcome
no i'm sure it's kilobytes not dog bites oh hello chip dippers welcome to retro recipes and welcome
to a video with some well good news and bad news what would you like first all right sorry
oh this is pre-recorded sorry i can't actually hear my bad but anyway we're talking about the
commander x-16 today and when we named the product to begin with we went through quite a process
you know it originally was the commander 16. we realized that was going to be confused with the
c16 the commodore 16 but we still wanted something you know nostalgic and evocative of that kind of
feel you know commodore commodore 64 vic-20 and even the logo we wanted it to be something that
perhaps was similar to or would remind you of the commodore chicken lips logo and we went through
the whole process and came out with commander x16 and we loved it you know it was it was nostalgic
to us now one thing you might notice if you certainly pointed it out to me a few times
is that on the end of our logo is the little tm symbol and part of the context for this i need to
explain to you the difference between tm and the r in a circle now tm basically means we are we're
calling this our trademark we are putting it out there and notifying people on the logo that this
is ours but it's not a registered trademark inches closer for tummy tickles registered trademark is
where you put the r in the circle and that means that you've actually registered the product
with the u.s patent and trademark office the uspp yeah makes sense so we didn't register it
partly because it's very expensive to do so partly because you know this is a not-for-profit product
and we don't really think people are gonna be cloning this on mass in china but i did
do a lot of due diligence and as part of that due diligence one thing that's important to me
was to make sure that nobody else was already using the commander name because
obviously we would then be infringing on their trademarks we don't want to do that right right
so i did an extensive search now another crucial thing to note just before i uh
explain what's going on is that it's perfectly okay for you to use a trademark that's the same cheeriocheerio
as a trademark in a different sales category for example if we were launching commander
dog treats for example let's pretend these are they it would be okay to call them commander
dog treats even if there was already a commander computer because the acid test is i thought would
a consumer get confused feed them to their dog and think they were feeding their dog a computer
no clearly not so i was researching purely in computer category and there was some similar
kind of things but nothing there was a trademark that was you know still being upheld and paid the
renewal fees for and nothing in specifically computers so you know i did my due diligence
and here are some of the examples of similar products that i found
well as you can see there was a lot of them now i did mention that this is going to be good
news and bad news kind of video so firstly yes emotional support dog is ready for the
bad news i received a letter from a law firm stating that they represented a client who had
you guessed it a similar name and it wasn't ice cream somehow i had missed this in the searches
and this is probably why we should have hired a proper lawyer uh to do this but again we are not
for profit and it's not the end of the world you know we're pre-launched so companies change names
of products all the time but they did say that if we launched with commander x-16 we would be facing
a cease and desist and be facing a lawsuit i phoned david and we spoke to the rest of the team
and came to the perhaps obvious decision we need to change the name away from commander x16 now
we we're pretty sad about this to begin with now i'm not going to name the company
because there are no hard feelings here you know it is our fault your fault particularly i did give
you that half of the alphabet to search through but from the bad news to the good news we do have
a brand new name for the product and i'm actually really excited about it i'm really happy with it
and i think well i'm gonna let guy explain that that's his name right 8-bit guy because he's
really happy with it too i mean ultimately i was disappointed that we had to change the name but
you know i mean it is what it is and you know interesting thing is after the last 10 days or
so i've actually kind of gotten used to it in fact i think that if you'd presented me
with with both names from the very beginning i would have probably picked this new one uh
after all so you know i think it's probably worked out best for the project yep we are actually
really excited about the new name before i reveal it to you for the first time here she's excited
as well that's how she exhibits her excitement is with with a you know sort of excited excited yawn
we should first thank pcb way you didn't duck did you basically have been really supportive to us in
in this change and they've also been supported to us with pcbs for the new prototypes so
obviously we are getting those reproduced with the new logo on so thank you pcpy for
keeping us furnished in new prototype pcbs and supporting us in our reassignment so
i think the only thing i can do now is announce the brand new name are you going to stay here
for this no she's just too excited ladies and gentlemen the new name for the commander x-16
is
the chicken lips 16 is designed to evoke the same fondness and nostalgia
many of us had for 8-bit computers whilst retaining closeness to the hardware
from a programming perspective but more than that chicken lips 16 is intended not only as an
educational tool but to solve some of the issues of finding an 8-bit system to tinker with today
namely ever increasing costs auction site price gouging and sniping
lack of replacement parts and unreliability of 30 year old hardware chicken lips 16
will be so reliable and nostalgic but we like to think of it as the chicken that laid the olden egg
chicken lips 16 will be made entirely with parts that are still readily available today ensuring
perpetual availability without reliability issues running the newly renamed chicken lips basic
version 3 our chicken lips will be inexpensive enough to allow a critical mass of users to
create an expansive software ecosystem but simple enough that a single person can understand all of
the chicks sorry chips and components that allow that software to run on the chicken lips 16 itself
chicken lips 16 it's not made of aluminium but we still rate it hen out of hen. if you
take a look at our website now you can see that it's all being rebranded chicken lips
16 and you can now head over to chickenlips.com for all your software library and forum needs
also if you did buy a deluxe keyboard from wasd that is branded with the old name that will
no longer be spoken he who shall not be named you can now buy a replacement keyboard topper
with the chicken lips 16 logo on there instead what do you think about the chicken lips name
thank you hello ma'am uh what do you think about the new name
thank you very much we've settled on a new name it is chicken lips 16. what do you think of that
um i think you like it right yes yeah yeah yeah sure it's great and we also needed a
name for the assembly environment sort of an easy to use windows notepad for assembly
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i can't say it i can't do it anymore oh guys happy april 1st to all of you
yes who knows it was a joke of course there is no chicken chickens don't even have lips
don't worry commander x16 is here to stay david himself will be not guy we'll be back
soon with a slightly more serious and cool update about yes the commander x16 i'll be back soon
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