Motorola Mobility Settles Litigation Over XOOM Trademark

Motorola Mobility has settled long-running litigation with international wire transfer services company XOOM Corporation over a trademark dispute regarding the name XOOM as it pertains to Motorola’s use of the name. As a result of the settlement, which also included undisclosed financial terms, Motorola will officially drop its trademark on a gradual basis and pay XOOM Corporation an undisclosed amount for the trademark violation.

While the settlement makes things official in regards to the brand and trademark, Motorola unofficially abandoned the name after the less than successful reception for the Honeycomb tablet and quietly moved on to other similar products with the similar branding such as the Xoom 2/Xoom Family Edition in Europe and the Droid Xyboard series for the US, which was a rebranding attempt by Motorola in order to fit it within Verizon’s Droid product line, again to little mainstream success. The original Xoom shipped a total of 990,000 units out of 100,000 sold within the first 6 weeks of release before being discontinued in 2012, but not before recently receiving one last update from Verizon and Motorola.