Comments on: FAQ: BlackBerry is Spelt with Two Capital “B”s & More

By: Luciano

Luciano — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:03:54 +0000

I really don’t think we should be mocking RIM for this. These rules are common place in copyright and brand protection procedures, and RIM has in fact been very reasonable towards the many Web sites that use the “BlackBerry” name, unlike at least two companies that immediately spring to my mind who act like total jerks about it.

By: a known Forum SysOp

a known Forum SysOp — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:35:38 +0000

Good thing to know!
Luckily to know all this RIM Crap dammit what are you puffing guys?)
I NOW JUST WON’T Create A BB Help area to my forum

Enough is Enough with all these Trademark and $***T crap!

In just few years we will not even be able to say the word window or windows because of trademark Issues
sheesh!

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:48:55 +0000

Spelt is just British English compared to the American English Spelled variation.
http://grammartips.homestead.com/british.html
I used it instead of Spelled because that is how they spelled spelt in the internal RIM document I was reading this from. I just copied their usage

By: chinesecatt

chinesecatt — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:24:18 +0000

I hardly use the word “smartphone”. I use “BlackBerry Devices” more often than not. Looking at their Limited Warranty information, they also use “BlackBerry Handheld”

By: James

James — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:04:37 +0000

I am sure BlackBerry is not spelt with two capital Bs, even though it must be spelled that way!

By: Agent (not AgEnT)

Agent (not AgEnT) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:55:44 +0000

Thanksb for the chuckles!

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:36:26 +0000

oh crap, I forgot, is “spelt” a word?

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:33:32 +0000

I guess by their rules blackberry.com is a violation and should be blackberrysmartphone.com.
Oh, look at any of your email headers. They all go through servers with names like bis.na.blackberry.com and etc.
Well, I guess they don’t have to protect their trademarks and prohibited uses from themselves do they?
How come I am sitting hear looking at 4 devices, all of which say just BlackBerry on the front, not BlackBerry Smartphone?
If BlackBerry is the appropriate case, was does the operating system not autocorrect to that?
One more is it Smartphone, or SmartPhone, or smartphone? Or perhaps smartPhone?

Ok, it is friday night, where’s my Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum with Coca-Cola? I suspect saying “Cap’n and Coke” probably violates a couple trademarks…

By: Jer

Jer — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:57:41 +0000

I forgot to mention, the term is Genericized Trademark.

More reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark

By: Jer

Jer — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:53:55 +0000

You’d be surprised . . . most companies do actually have that “legaleeze” in there that is very similar to this.

Here’s a good example with Adobe and Photoshop:
http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html

When it comes to protecting trademarks, its not enough to have them trademarked, but you have to show that you’re actually PROTECTING your trademark, or else you risk losing it to the rest of the world, and losing your licensing and potential brand recognition.

Think of Kleenex. How many people say they want a kleenex to blow their nose? When in actually, they should be saying “a kleenex brand tissue”.

History is filled with companies who have “lost the rights” to their trademark because it became SO popular, it became synonymous with the product itself.

It’s a reason why Google fights profusely against people who say they will “google” something, when they mean they are searching for it . . and have fought to keep that term from being included in the dictionary, etc.

So with the big disclaimers like that, its their way of proving to courts in the future that they have done their due dilligence to try and protect their brand.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:52:17 +0000

and on a side note, I wonder if rim even has an attorney firm anymore. I have been waiting since the ptb was leaked and people are selling themes created with it. Remember when the last PTB was leaked out, they actually shut down some websites and sued them because they were selling themes made with the BETA PTB.
RIM…..oh rimmmmmm…..….where are you???

By: anon

anon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:49:23 +0000

Yeah...rim sends this out about every 6 months as a reminder. I think it's completely ridiculous and retarded. I am always sending email to rim employees about things Blackberry related such as devices and bis and bes. Considering all of the blackberrys and crackberrys that are out there, you would think that rim would have better things to do. We deal with these bb's and berrys all day long. Give us a break. Wonder how pissed rim would be if I posted screenshots of their employees using terms such as bis, bes, bb, bb's, berry, Blackberry, etc? Probably enough to call a mandatory Monday meeting. These below were compiled just by a quick search and the links here on berryreview, so rim's lawyers have a nice hefty task in front of them if they actually want to pursue any of this. blackberryrocks blackberrymania blackberryforums blackberryfaq blackberrynews blackberrycool blackberryguy blackberrychick blackberrysync blackberrythemecentral blackberrythemes coolblackberrythemes blackberryblast blackberryinsight miblackberry blackberrygeeks lablackberry localblackberry blackberrybooks blackberrywallpapers blackberryfreeware As soon as rimstarts going after folks for this, I can see a good amount of domains hosted in other countries.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:23:58 +0000

Wow this is actually interesting BB News. I never knew there was so many blackberry trademark rules to follow. I know, as a bbgeek and a self admitted crackBerrie user that I would never take RiM’s good trademark name in vane. Clearly rIm is going to crackdown on all of us for daring to spoil their good name. Shame on us BlackB Smart Phone Users. Shame on Us!