The legal battle over the BBX name – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2011-12-07T04:06:41+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/2281964 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Dieter Bohn <![CDATA[BBX is now BlackBerry 10, likely due to BASIS lawsuit]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/6/2617207/bbx-is-now-blackberry-10-basis-lawsuit 2011-12-06T23:06:41-05:00 2011-12-06T23:06:41-05:00
RIM BBX Laziridius 2

If you were to choose a name of an important, new mobile operating system upon which you were pinning the future hopes of your beleaguered company, you would probably make sure you chose one that wouldn't become the target of a lawsuit that could require you to change the name. You also wouldn't be RIM, as its official @BlackBerryDev Twitter account has announced that the "BBX" name has been replaced by "BlackBerry 10."

The move comes tonight in the wake of a US court decision in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in which the court decided to granted a temporary restraining order against RIM. BASIS requested the order, as a part of an ongoing saga af …

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RIM BBX Laziridius 2

RIM's next-gen operating system, BBX, hasn't had a very good run so far: co-CEO Mike Laziridius failed to give many details during BlackBerry DevCon, the PlayBook 2.0 OS on which it is based has been delayed until 2012, and now RIM is facing a lawsuit over the name itself.

The lawsuit comes from Basis International, which has used the "BBx" name to describe its own operating system since 1985 and also holds a trademark on the name. Three days after Basis complained directly to RIM about the term, it's taken the complaint to a district court in New Mexico. Basis alleges that RIM's use of the term infringes on its trademark. Trademark infring …

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]]> Dieter Bohn <![CDATA[RIM faces legal complaint over ‘BBX’ operating system name]]> https://www.theverge.com/blackberry/2011/10/23/2508934/rim-faces-legal-complaint-over-bbx-operating-system-name 2011-10-23T17:00:50-04:00 2011-10-23T17:00:50-04:00
BBX Laziridius

Last week at BlackBerry DevCon, RIM unveiled the new name for its next-generation operating system, BBX. The very next day, it faced a potential lawsuit over the name from Basis, International - which has its own, trademarked operating system called "BBx." Basis has sent a cease and desist letter to RIM asking the BlackBerry maker to stop using the name. In a press release, Basis CEO Nico Spence called attention to the fact that its BBx OS works on multiple platforms and is therefore concerned about customer confusion:

We have thousands of product licenses installed worldwide with the 'BBX' prefix that run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and ot …

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