Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The trademark nonsense that commenced with Apple threatening everyone that used the word "pod" in their product continues with RIM issuing a lawsuit against Samsung for using the word "black" in two of their products. However, RIM looks to have more of a case than some of Apple's efforts of the past.
In actual fact, RIM is not sueing Samsung for
using the word "black" but for naming two products that could very
easily be confused with RIM's popular BlackBerry brand.
The point that RIM makes in its lawsuit is that Samsung's new BlackJack
smartphone competes directly against a new RIM product, the BlackBerry
Pearl. Both products perform similar functions and have a similar size
and weight. Samsung has also released a mobile phone called Black
Carbon which, although not a direct competitor to the BlackBerry range
has also drawn the ire of RIM.
The blogosphere appears to be divided on the issue. Aside from a few
parochial Canadian pro-RIM posts, there are some bloggers who fervently
believe no company has the right to sequester a common usage English
language word for a trademark.
However, as some bloggers have pointed out, the real question is
whether Samsung's use of the name BlackJack for a smartphone may create
confusion between its new product and RIM's existing BlackBerry brand.
A few posters have indicated that BlackJack commercials have initially
led them to believe they were looking at a new product in the
BlackBerry range.
David Bass
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