Die-hard fans of RIM’s mobile efforts should put those BBX tattoo plans on hold, because the US Federal Court has blocked the corporate from using the BBX trademark, favoring the prevailing use by BASIS International for its software. Hence, the lads from Waterloo just announced at BlackBerry DevCon Asia that the recent name for its next phone OS is BlackBerry 10 (and the Roman numeral for 10 is… ah, we see what you probably did there.) Let’s hope RIM’s plans for pulling its tablets and phones right into a single unified platform are better executed than its naming process — next time, they must probably just leave it as much as the machines .
US Federal Court Bars RIM (BlackBerry) from Using BASIS’ BBX Trademark
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The us Federal Court in Albuquerque today granted a brief restraining order (TRO) against Research in Motion (RIM), immediately barring RIM from using BASIS International Ltd.’s incontestable federally registered BBX trademark at RIM’s Asian DevCon on December 7-8 in Singapore.
RIM had refused BASIS’ requests to prevent the infringement on the DevCon conference, which ended in BASIS filing for the TRO.
In rejecting RIM’s arguments against the issuance of a TRO, the court found that, “The BBX mark is similar to the mark which RIM is allegedly using to give its BBX product (TRO page 8).” and “even though the 2 companies are usually not direct competitors, the parties’ respective BBX products are highly related and target the identical class of customers, that may be, business application software developers (TRO page 9).” The court went directly to concur with BASIS that “The alleged infringement is probably going to cause customers and searching for what you offer to wrongly believe that the software applications created using BASIS’s development tools are just compatible with RIM’s BBX operating system (TRO page 11).”
The order described how the “Courts use a well-established four-part test to choose whether to grant injunctive relief (TRO page 7)” and concluded that “Accordingly, after considering all of the factors relative to a determination of whether an injunction need to be granted, the Court finds that each one factors weigh in favor of BASIS (TRO page 8).”
See BASIS’ latest generation of BBX in action by running the sample restaurant tip calculator and residential mortgage calculator applications from links.basis.com/buidemos to experience BASIS’ BBX platform-independent solutions by yourself smartphone or tablet.
About BASIS
BASIS International Ltd. is a worldwide software company whose software developer community is a world network of partners for whom the idea “BBx Generations” of goods form the basis for proven and reliable software solutions. Since 1985, BASIS’ mission was to blaze a trail by producing ambitious and innovative programming languages, database products, development tools, and an application framework for his or her community to construct upon. BASIS is committed to delivering platform independence to the server and client, including browser-based mobile clients.
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