RIM sues LG over phone names, "black" and "berry" apparently not okay
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Nov 9th 2007 at 12:44PM
RIM may be better known as a defendant than as a plaintiff in the courtroom, but Waterloo's finest have actually done a brisk business filing lawsuits over the past couple years. In late '06, RIM filed a complaint against Samsung for calling its i607 -- a phone suspiciously similar in appearance to RIM's QWERTY devices -- the BlackJack, though the two companies eventually came to an agreement that allowed the name to carry on. Knowing that RIM was playing hardball, Verizon approached RIM earlier this year and asked if it could slap "Blueberry" and "Black Cherry" on some of its LG wares; RIM rejected the request, so Verizon went ahead and used "Black Cherry" and "Strawberry" anyway (apparently Verizon's "request" was more of a notification than a request). Anyway, that whole ordeal has apparently worked RIM into a lather and it has requested the destruction -- yes, destruction -- of all LG phones with "berry," "black," or "pearl" in their names. Don't get us wrong, we don't really want to see millions of phones destroyed, but... well, we kind of do. Especially if they use a wood chipper or something.[Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark @ Nov 9th 2007 1:01PM
Black Cherry sounds like Engrish for Blackberry.
rTwelve @ Nov 9th 2007 1:05PM
Except it's not. See: ice cream, etc.
bob sakamano @ Nov 9th 2007 1:41PM
after this story, i don't think your wood chipper comment is very appropriate this week!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,309686,00.html
Todd @ Nov 9th 2007 2:23PM
But next week is okay right??! Seriously there is always something bad going on in the world - let's just leave the author's comment alone and take it for what it's for - a joke!
Mark @ Nov 9th 2007 2:35PM
Voting this stupid comment down.
borgheses @ Nov 9th 2007 3:04PM
anyone got video of someone getting sucked into a wood chipper? or at least a cute fuzzy animal? >:)
bob sakamano @ Nov 9th 2007 3:26PM
i was kidding mobilenerds!
Andrew Boer @ Nov 9th 2007 6:31PM
What about if they blended it instead?
Dani @ Nov 9th 2007 7:51PM
Oh no. Someone took my black cherry.
LordObento @ Nov 9th 2007 7:48PM
This is a dumb lawsuit. One, the Name of the phone is not Black Cherry or Strawberry, it's Chocolate. People don't say I have a Black Cherry phone they say they have a Chocolate. Black Cherry and Strawberry are adjectives that describe the phone's color. It's not like they are suing Motorola for advertising the Black RAZR on Cingular/AT&T. Two, No one is ever going to confuse a Chocolate with a Blackberry, I can see Blackjack and Blackberry but not a Black Cherry Chocolate. Three, if comes down to where colors are trademark (aka T-mobile trademarked Magenta as their color for any phone they want)I would start trademarking your 120 pack of Crayola Crayons before people start running out of names or creating new ones like BLAK or BLU.
Navi Thach @ Nov 10th 2007 1:02AM
Stupid. No one's gonna confuse a Chocolate for a BlackBerry - unless you're at Hollister with the kids or the G/F, or at a concert.