Tech n' Cars: Xoom corp. is suing Motorola for stealing the name "Xoom"! Blogger Widgets

February 26, 2011

Xoom corp. is suing Motorola for stealing the name "Xoom"!

Xoom corporation is suing Motorola, saying it can't call its tablet the Xoom. While the Xoom tablet was released only 2 days ago, Xoom corporation has been operating online payments much longer, and has owned the domain http://www.xoom.com/ for 8 years.

I think that both Motorola and Xoom corporation should be allowed to keep the name Xoom. After all, how many people are going to buy a Motorola Xoom to find online payment services? Tech companies have often used names of other brands without getting sued. For example, Evo is the name of a winter gear company that has owned http://www.evo.com/ for a very long time, yet HTC still named their phone the Evo 4G.