Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 20, 2011 @02:36PM from the hits-keep-coming dept.

AZA43 writes "As if its latest BlackBerry service outage--the worst in company history--and the mass exodus of BlackBerry users to iOS and Android weren't bad enough, RIM is now facing a potential trademark lawsuit over the name of its next generation BlackBerry OS: BBX. The BBX announcement was the most significant news to come from RIM's BlackBerry Developer Conference this week, and now it looks like RIM may have change the upcoming platform's name to something else. RIM just can't seem to do anything right these days."

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Re:due diligence? by Moryath · 2011-10-20 14:49 · Score: 0, Troll

Funny. Nobody in the world has ever fucking heard of the other BBX before. A cursory Google search comes up with a NYSE stock listing (BBX = BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc), BroadBandXpress (bbxpress.net), "BBX Inc" bodybuilding scam artists, "BBX Technologies" (http://www.bbxtechnologies.com), and on the SECOND page, one of the shittiest written Wikipedia entries I've ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBx).
Trademark trolls, Patent trolls... trolls is trolls.