As if Research in Motion needed any more bad news, it has just been ordered by a judge not to use the name "BBX" because it already belongs to another trademark owner.
The three-letter name was going to be the name of a new mobile OS and would have been part of RIM's new branding strategy as it tries to reinvigorate the Blackberry name.
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But as soon as Basis International caught wind of this, it filed a lawsuit, saying that its software, also called BBX, was the target of trademark infringement.
At the time, Basis CEO Nico Spence issued a statement, saying, "We have thousands of product licenses installed worldwide with the
The three-letter name was going to be the name of a new mobile OS and would have been part of RIM's new branding strategy as it tries to reinvigorate the Blackberry name.
.
But as soon as Basis International caught wind of this, it filed a lawsuit, saying that its software, also called BBX, was the target of trademark infringement.
At the time, Basis CEO Nico Spence issued a statement, saying, "We have thousands of product licenses installed worldwide with the