I am pretty sure RIM can NOT wait til this year is Over, well they only have about a week left, and Hopefully 2012 will be better for them -_-
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Ok I know you are worried if you have a Blackberry, for most of you with Blackberry’s only still have them for the BBM. RIM is being sued for the Trademark BBM, a Toronto-based broadcast industry group named BBM, has been using the name for almost 6 decades, and although they have been letting RIM rock for over the past decade, but I guess since RIM is stinking the joint up, they No Longer want the Name BBM attached to them. Actually the Toronto Company says they have tried for a while to resolve the issue, even going as far as to offer to change their Company Name, they just wanted RIM to pay for it, but got No answer. See what had happened was, RIM originally called it “Blackberry Messenger” but the People were calling it BBM, and in Feb 2010 they tried to register it with the official Canadian trademark office, but was already told they couldn’t, but they went ahead and rolled with the Rush, and used it anyway, and BBM, the real BBM is fed up. The 1st hearing is scheduled Jan. 11th.
RIM made a statement on the Matter via Email:
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Since its launch in July 2005, BlackBerry Messenger has become a tremendously popular social networking service. In 2010, RIM started to formally adopt the BBM acronym, which had, at that point, already been organically coined and widely used by BlackBerry Messenger customers as a natural abbreviation of the BlackBerry Messenger name. The services associated with RIM’s BBM offering clearly do not overlap with BBM Canada’s services and the two marks are therefore eligible to co-exist under Canadian trademark law. The two companies are in different industries and have never been competitors in any area. We believe that BBM Canada is attempting to obtain trademark protection for the BBM acronym that is well beyond the narrow range of the services it provides and well beyond the scope of rights afforded by Canadian trademark law. RIM has therefore asked the Court to dismiss the application and award costs to RIM. Further, for clarity, RIM’s application to register BBM as a trademark with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is pending and we are confident that a registration will eventually issue. The inference by BBM Canada that CIPO has refused RIM’s BBM trademark application is quite frankly very misleading.
