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US Federal Court Bars RIM (BlackBerry) from Using BASIS' BBX Trademark

The United States Federal Court in Albuquerque today granted a temporary 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 stop the infringement at the DevCon conference, which resulted 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 identical to the mark which RIM is allegedly using to present its BBX product (TROpage 8).” and “despite the fact that the two companies are not direct competitors, the parties' respective BBX products are highly related and target the same class of consumers, that is, business application software developers (TRO page 9).”

BASIS Files Motion for a Preliminary Injunction Against RIM's Use of BBX

BASIS International Ltd. today filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Research in Motion (RIM) to stop using BASIS' incontestable federally registered trademark BBX® during the pendency of their trademark infringement action against RIM.

"BASIS built the BBX brand over the course of a quarter of a century to become synonymous with the term µoperating system independent. RIM's unilateral seizure of that brand to use as a name for their new BlackBerry operating system is destroying that association. It's absurd to suggest that they are not in our line of business."

BASIS Files BBX Complaint Against RIM; Announces FoxPro Alternative

Thursday, 27 October 2011 08:09

BASIS International Ltd. has filed a complaint in New Mexico Federal Court against Research in Motion (RIM) for trademark infringement in response to RIM's announcement of their yet-to-be-released operating system (OS) named BBX for their BlackBerry smartphones and tablet computing devices. BASIS owns the BBX trademark and has been careful to protect it.

According to BASIS Chairman and CEO Nico Spence, "While we’ve been reasonable when others have attempted to use the name, RIM’s use is a clear conflict, especially given the recent addition of the Browser User Interface (BUI) capability to our BBX product. Anyone can try it on their browser, even a BlackBerry or PlayBook, at links.basis.com/buidemos.

RIM’s public stance on the trademark infringement forced us to move forward with the legal procedure to eliminate continuing confusing communication from RIM, including removing all references to BBX on printed or electronic medium, including youtube.com."

BASIS Defends BBx Trademark After RIM’s Announcement

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 00:00

BASIS International Ltd. has taken swift legal action to preserve and protect their longstanding ownership of the BBx® trademarked operating system independent language, database, and toolset. Research In Motion’s (RIM) press release announcing a new BlackBerry operating system (OS) named “BBX” is causing great confusion for the worldwide BASIS community and could potentially harm BASIS’ reputation for enabling cross-platform application development.

BASIS Chairman and CEO, Nico Spence, said, “We have thousands of product licenses installed worldwide with the ‘BBX’ prefix that run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other proprietary UNIX OSs from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and SUN, with mobile clients running Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows Mobile. We are fielding numerous customer inquiries voicing their confusion about the RIM announcement.”

BASIS’ latest generation of BBx, BBj®, is an OS-agnostic language that runs on numerous OSs, Java platforms, and JavaScript-enabled browsers, and is not limited to just BlackBerry cellphones and tablets powered by RIM’s “BBX.”

TechCon Canada in September

BASIS announces the BASIS TechCon Canada, hosted by Descore Inc. in Montreal, Quebec, on September 19-20, 2011.

If you missed our successful TechCons earlier this year in Las Vegas and Germany, this is your opportunity to attend this technical conference led in English by the BASIS Albuquerque team of experts while networking with your colleagues.

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