If Hyperion win ,they definitely need to keep calling it AMIGA OS or Amiga by Hyperion.
And if Hyperion won the OS4 IP rights,I think they would be foolish not to release it for as many platforms as possible,especially PPC Macs as there are many more of those than Amiga PPC in existence.Hopefully OS4 would be usefull on my '030 50mhz or at least on the '060!
Since many people have already paid $59 or so plus shipping for Cloanto Amiga Forever ,I speculate that those same people would happily pay a similar amount for OS4 Amiga,Mac or x86.I do believe there is a psychological price barrier probably near $100 at which most would opt for MAC OSxX or Windows.
I would like to see them rename it Hyperion OS, and avoid any mention of the former licensor at all. I would support it too. I'd buy a couple of copies just to show support. Because after all the other company would have lost the rights at that point and it doesn't need that name affecting its "future", plus it might have a better product "acceptance" and not have the stigma potentially associated with it's previous name.
That would be completely crazy, as it completely ignores the massive value of the Amiga brand. If some new OS people have never heard of shows up it will go nowhere. If someone could actually make a new version of an Amiga OS available people will take notice. News stories will be written, and at least people will know about it. They might laugh at it, they might consider it too expensive, or too poorly featured, but they will hear about it.
I'm quite sceptical that Hyperion could actually come out of this court case holding the rights to use the Amiga brand, even if they do come out of it holding OS4. If they do end up with just the OS, then the smart thing to do would be to license it to Amiga Inc so that they can still sell it as Amiga OS4, but take a fair share of the revenue. Of course Amiga Inc may not want to go down that route in which case Hyperion would end up selling Hyperion OS to a subset of the Amiga community, and Amiga Inc's plans to release a commercial Amiga OS would be set back a few years as they would have to develop their own OS from scratch. (To save time I doubt they'd even base it on 3.1)
This would be lose/lose for everyone who ever hopes for Amiga OS to be anything other than a toy OS used by an ever dwindling group of Amiga fans. The only resolutions I would be happy with are an outright victory by either side (i.e. they get full sources, rights, branding, etc) although this seems quite unlikely, particularly for Hyperion, or for the two sides to come to an amicable compromise outside of court that allows them to continue to work together.