[poooogles]

IANAL but looking at kiks trademark [1] I'm not so sure sadly.

>Computer software for use with mobile devices, namely, computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones for downloading, displaying, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing text, sound, images, audio files and video files

Organising text is what Kik (the project) does, so it would infringe the trademark?

1 - https://trademarks.justia.com/858/93/kik-85893307.html

[lucaspiller]

This trademark doesn't cover the word "kik", but the whole design. They have other trademarks too, so maybe there is one that covers just the word.