By: Josh Long
Source: http://www.vision2mobile.com
BASIS International Ltd. on Wednesday revealed filing a lawsuit against BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion for trademark infringement in connection with RIM’s yet-to-be-released operating system, BBX.
RIM must now defend itself in federal court in New Mexico.
BASIS International, a global software company based in Albuquerque, N.M., claims it already has a trademark on “BBx" and that RIM’s new operating system for BlackBerry smartphones and tablet computers would cause confusion and hurt its reputation.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages as well as an order barring RIM from using the BBX name, The Los Angeles Times reported. "In addition to the inevitable confusion created by RIM's use of the mark BBX for related goods, customers and prospective customers are also likely to wrongly believe that software applications created using Basis' development tools are only compatible with RIM's BBX operating system, thus impairing and destroying Basis' reputation for providing software development tools for cross-platform development," The Times quoted the suit.
Earlier this month, RIM told Reuters that the company hadn’t seen a copy of the legal complaint described in a press release issued by BASIS International, “but we do not believe the marks are confusing, particularly since our respective companies are in different lines of business."
Source: http://www.vision2mobile.com/news/2011/10/blackberry-maker-rim-sued-for-trademark-infringem.aspx
Source: http://www.vision2mobile.com
BASIS International Ltd. on Wednesday revealed filing a lawsuit against BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion for trademark infringement in connection with RIM’s yet-to-be-released operating system, BBX.
RIM must now defend itself in federal court in New Mexico.
BASIS International, a global software company based in Albuquerque, N.M., claims it already has a trademark on “BBx" and that RIM’s new operating system for BlackBerry smartphones and tablet computers would cause confusion and hurt its reputation.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages as well as an order barring RIM from using the BBX name, The Los Angeles Times reported. "In addition to the inevitable confusion created by RIM's use of the mark BBX for related goods, customers and prospective customers are also likely to wrongly believe that software applications created using Basis' development tools are only compatible with RIM's BBX operating system, thus impairing and destroying Basis' reputation for providing software development tools for cross-platform development," The Times quoted the suit.
Earlier this month, RIM told Reuters that the company hadn’t seen a copy of the legal complaint described in a press release issued by BASIS International, “but we do not believe the marks are confusing, particularly since our respective companies are in different lines of business."
Source: http://www.vision2mobile.com/news/2011/10/blackberry-maker-rim-sued-for-trademark-infringem.aspx
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