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Motorola Sued for Trademark Infringement Over Use of “Xoom” Tablet

On the eve of launching its new Xoom tablet computer, Motorola was hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit by Xoom Corporation, a San Francisco-based global money transfer company. Xoom is not a particularly large company and it appears that it will be hurt financially by use of the the Xoom mark by Motorola. For  example, as the complaint notes, when the term “Xoom” is put in the Google search engine, most of the search results come back for the Motorola tablet, not Xoom’s money transfer, as was the case before Motorola named their tablet the Xoom. That said, trademark infringement will be difficult to prove in this case. Is a tablet computer and a money transfer service both with the same name confusingly similar to the relevant buying public? That is the issue to be decided by the court.

Xoom v Motorola – Complaint