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Originally Posted by AWS

That's because you are part of the vbulletin community. If you weren't you wouldn't connect the 2.
Do a search on Google for vB and see what you get.

Precisely. First of all, Google searches are not case-sensitive. Quote from Google:

Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the same results.

So, vB or VB or vb or Vb does not make a difference as far a Google goes.

With regard to VB as related to visual basic, yes, Jelsoft and vBulletin have not yet surpassed Microsoft, laughing out loud, but that does not mean that vB is not a brand for Jelsoft or could not be trademarked. In fact, I just searched TESS at www.uspto.com and noticed that vBulletin was not trademarked (Jelsoft, I would do this immediately if I were you) and noticed there are lots of vB trademarks (I would trademark this for virtual electronic and on-line communties if I were you). You greatly improve the strength and value your brand(s) by trademarks.

Just because VB is a brand for a programming language does not mean that vB is not a brand for virtual communties. Both can co-exisit as trademarks. Good Coders are not necessarily the best business people and the reverse is also true too!

PM me if you want a great TM (intellectual property) attorney in the US. I know one of the best with one of the top firms in the US.