We mentioned the recent issues that came to light for RIM regarding the use of BBM, and well, it looks like they have since responded with an official statement. “Since its launch in July 2005, BlackBerry Messenger has become a tremendously popular social networking service. In 2010, RIM started to formally adopt the BBM acronym, more »

RIM is facing another potential roadblock that could seriously hurt the BlackBerry brand. The company is being sued by a Canadian company named BBM Canada. BBM Canada describes itself as a company that provides “broadcast measurement and consumer behaviour data, as well as industry-leading intelligence to broadcasters, advertisers and agencies.”

Facebook recently announced a sweeping change to profile pages with a new interface called Timeline. Timeline takes everything you and your friends have posted on your page and groups them in chronological order. Users can also choose to highlight certain posts to make them expand across the page. Timeline will be released to everyone on Facebook in a couple weeks, but it’s finding itself in the middle of a lawsuit right now. A company called Timelines Inc. is suing Facebook because it claims Facebook’s use of the word “Timeline” could put the company out of business.

Every since those fake Apple stores were called out in China, we have seen authorities take action against the stores that were selling Apple-branded products without permission. In the United States, there are a couple stores in New York that have found themselves firmly in Apple’s crosshairs.

The fake Apple Stores that were discovered in China are not the only locations that set out to make money using Apple’s trademarked style. Apple Insider reports that Apple has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against dozens of defendants in the United States. Since the contents of the lawsuit are currently sealed, a lot of the details are unknown.

Samsung is facing a lawsuit brought on by Apple. Last Friday, Apple filed a suit that accuses Samsung of trademark infringement and unfair competition due to Samsung’s Galaxy phones and tablets. Simply put, Apple believes Samsung copied the physical and software designs of the iPhone and iPad. Apple is seeking financial compensation and possible injunctions. If granted, Samsung may have to change the design of its phones and tablets.

A couple days ago, HTC filed a court document with the US District Court in Seattle over its right to use the HTC Inspire trademark. This filing was made in response to a letter Samsung sent HTC on March 3. Samsung claims that HTC’s use of the word “Inspire” for its smartphones would confuse costumers. Samsung was granted a trademark for the word “Inspiration” before HTC’s trademark for “HTC Inspire” was approved.

We have already learned that HP was planning to release a webOS based tablet sometime in 2011 and now, for good or bad it looks like the device will be “similar to the iPad.” The statement comes courtesy of HP’s Peter Helm who stated in an email to the Palm Developer Community that; “Now that more »

In a little bit of confirmation style news, HP confirmed that a webOS based tablet would be coming in 2011. And that is about it, nothing really to report other than the simple confirmation. The good news here is that it was mentioned during HP’s Q3 earnings call, which is better than a mention in more »

Are you eagerly awaiting the day HP launches a tablet device running webOS? Even though a tablet is on the horizon for HP, not much is known about the possible webOS running tablet, other than hopefully a 2010 launch. According to UPSTO, HP filed for a trademark on PALMPAD, which sounds an awful lot like more »