RIM and Samsung make nice on naming dispute

by Paul Miller posted Feb 8th 2007 at 11:45AM

And by "make nice" we mean they probably exchanged large amounts of money behind closed doors to keep this lawsuit from getting out of hand. RIM's lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for Central California in December, alleges that not only does Samsung's BlackJack phone cause consumer confusion, but the very fact that Samsung called the phone i600 in Europe proves that it was specifically targeting the US-centric BlackBerry types. RIM, in a statement Wednesday said that the settlement includes "immediate provisions for the protection of RIM's valuable trademarks," and that it "does include limitations on use of the Blackjack trademark, withdrawal of the trademark application for Blackjack, Cingular's retention of common law rights in the Blackjack trademark, and certain reasonable measures to avoid confusion in the marketplace." So it sounds like Samsung won't be getting much more mileage out of this naming convention, though the deliberate "Blackjack" misspelling by RIM -- with that lowercase "j" -- has to grate on Sammy just a little bit, unless of course that was part of the deal. So, can we all just get along now?

[Thanks, Marty H]

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Samsung, ATT

Tags: blackberry, blackjack, cingular, i600, lawsuit, pearl, rim, samsung, settlement

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Gerhard @ Feb 8th 2007 12:42PM

Blackberry vs. Windows Mobile? Don't make me laugh.

Y really tried hard to fall in love with WM's vast availability of 3rd party software, used both the Treo 750 and GTC TTyN - really uptodate devices.

But after half a dozen of daily reboots and a system crash produced by an incoming call (unrecoverable...) I promised not to touch again any Bill Gates stuff on a mission critical environment such as a phone.

This made me find out why Blackberry and Nokia (Symbian) smartphones do not have that infamous hole where you find the WM devices' reset button. THEY DON'T NEED IT!! They never really crash or at least not as bad as not being able to solve it by turning off/on the phone.

NO BILL GATES STUFF ON MY PHONE, please

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