Editing Commodore International (section)

==== Copyrights and patents ====
Ownership of the remaining assets of Commodore International, including the copyrights and patents, and the Amiga trademarks, passed from bankrupt Escom to [[Gateway, Inc.|Gateway 2000]] in 1997. Jim Collas became director of Amiga Technologies and he assembled a new team to work on a new generation of Amiga computers and other products on a new platform, prototyping one called the Amiga MCC and planning a potential [[tablet computer]]. However when Jeffrey Weitzen was chosen to become CEO of Gateway, who was not convinced of Collas's plans, he informed that Amiga Technologies division will be sold.<ref name=":3" /> On the final day of 1999, Gateway sold the copyrights and trademarks of Amiga to Amino, a Washington-based company founded, among others, by former Gateway subcontractors Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss; Amino immediately renamed itself to [[Amiga, Inc.]] Gateway retained the patents but gave a license to Amiga, Inc. to use the patents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gateway sells Amiga to ex-Amiga employee |url=https://www.theregister.com/1999/12/31/gateway_sells_amiga_to_examiga/ |access-date=2024-10-30}}</ref> Gateway itself was acquired by Taiwanese [[Acer Inc.|Acer]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2007-08-27 |title=Taiwan's Acer Plans to Acquire Gateway for $710 Million |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2007/08/27/taiwans-acer-plans-to-acquire-gateway-for-710-million.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref>

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003, it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the AmigaOS (but not yet over other intellectual property) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a [[Delaware]]-based company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amiga, Inc. Sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile Market. |url=https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news/38-corporate/91-amiga-inc-sells-the-amiga-operating-system-to-focus-on-amigade-and-the-mobile-market |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=www.hyperion-entertainment.com}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, based on loans and security agreements between Amiga, Inc. and Itec, LLC, the remaining intellectual property assets were transferred from Amiga, Inc. to KMOS, Inc. On March 16, 2005, KMOS, Inc. announced that it had completed all registrations with the State of Delaware to change its corporate name to Amiga, Inc. The Commodore/Amiga copyrights, including all their works up to 1993, were later sold to Cloanto in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cloanto confirms transfers of Commodore/Amiga copyrights |publisher=amiga-news.de |url=http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html |access-date=2015-02-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221054319/http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html |archive-date=February 21, 2015 }}</ref> A number of legal challenges and lawsuits have involved these companies and [[Hyperion Entertainment]], the Belgian software company that continues development of [[AmigaOS]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=amiga-news.de - Legal battle: Amiga Inc. resurrected from the dead |url=https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2018-10-00056-EN.html |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=www.amiga-news.de}}</ref>