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December 23, 2011 11:46 pm GMT
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Forget BBX: RIM Faces Legal Woes Over BBM Trademark
I swear, it never ends -- not long after a U.S. court passed down a judgment that saw RIM change the name of their new operating system, the company has once again gotten themselves into a tiff over trademarks. This time, the name in question is "BBM," RIM's preferred shorthand for their popular BlackBerry Messenger service.The lawsuit comes courtesy of BBM Canada, a not-for-profit broadcast and audience measurement organization that's been in business considerably longer than RIM has. Originally known as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, the group was originally founded in 1944 and took on the BBM moniker in 2001 -- well before RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service came to be.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/R7FqwXglNaA/
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