RIM Stumbles Into Legal Issue with BBX Name, BASIS International Takes Legal Action Over Trademark

Before RIM goes any further with the ‘BBX’ name they are going to have to go through BASIS International due to the fact that BASIS owns the trademark for its own trademarked operating system independent language, database, and toolset. The good thing however, is that CEO, Nico Spence, stated that with their help, RIM can get back some market that is eaten up by consumer app demand. Continue reading for full release.

Spence adds, “Ironically, BASIS’ BBx may aid RIM in its quest to grab a share of the application market for mobile devices in that any application created with BASIS’ BBx for the Android or iOS mobile devices will also run on BlackBerry products.” BASIS shows off the power and possibilities of the Browser User Interface version of BBx at links.basis.com/buidemos, including the “iPad BUI Mortgage Amortization” demo. Watch a news report of developer EMQUE Consultants’ customized BBx application for the iPad.

 

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–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.

“Ironically, BASIS’ BBx may aid RIM in its quest to grab a share of the application market for mobile devices in that any application created with BASIS’ BBx for the Android or iOS mobile devices will also run on BlackBerry products.”
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.”

Spence adds, “Ironically, BASIS’ BBx may aid RIM in its quest to grab a share of the application market for mobile devices in that any application created with BASIS’ BBx for the Android or iOS mobile devices will also run on BlackBerry products.” BASIS shows off the power and possibilities of the Browser User Interface version of BBx at links.basis.com/buidemos, including the “iPad BUI Mortgage Amortization” demo. Watch a news report of developer EMQUE Consultants’ customized BBx application for the iPa

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