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Today, BlackBerry filed a second lawsuit against Typo Products, the startup that was backed by Ryan Seacrest, alleging that its second-generation iPhone keyboard case continues to infringe upon its intellectual property.
According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, BlackBerry filed a complaint in a California federal court on Monday, claiming that the Typo2 “slavishly copied” its keyboard design. The complaint states:
“Just as they did with the Typo Keyboard, Defendants have again copied numerous proprietary BlackBerry designs and patents in the Typo2 Keyboard. The Typo2 Keyboard still blatantly copies BlackBerry’s iconic keyboard trade dress designs that have been embodied in numerous BlackBerry smartphones from the 2007 BlackBerry 8800 to the current Q10 and Classic models. The Typo2 Keyboard also infringes numerous BlackBerry utility patents related to BlackBerry’s proprietary keyboard design, backlighting and typing automation technologies.”
Typo Products initially clashed with BlackBerry shortly after they debuted their first-generation Typo case in late 2013. Seacrest’s goal was to create a physical keyboard for the iPhone that was as good as the keyboard on BlackBerry phones. Unfortunately for him, the keyboard looks like an exact replica of the Waterloo-based company’s keyboard.
BlackBerry filed an injunction against the first-generation device and won. This lawsuit prompted Typo Products to create Typo2, a second-generation case that the company claimed didn’t violate any BlackBerry patents. According to BlackBerry, the Typo2 is only a “minimally modified derivative version” of the original case that continues to infringe on the company’s intellectual property.
Earlier this month, the iPhone keyboard case maker was ordered to pay BlackBerry $860,000 because they continued to sell their case after they were ordered to cease sales in March.
[via Reuters]
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LOL poor BB is all they have left, While they had a case for the first one, and not sure they should of won, they might have a problem with the second case. All they would have to do is change the layout a little, BB is pushing it a bit, I mean its a keyboard
The BB keyboard is second to none; that includes physical and virtual keyboards. They have every right to protect their designs every bit as much, if not more than, Apple does with all their ridiculous patents for shapes and designs.
they are not going after some of the other companies that are offering the same thing. Hell there are hundreds on ebay.
What does that matter? I’m sure Apple doesn’t go after every small player that may be “borrowing” elements for their design, but they sure as heck don’t let players like Samsung away with anything.
Maybe the others aren’t worth their time or aren’t similar enough to their keyboard to warrant a lawsuit. This one is a carbon copy of the BB keyboard and clearly a patent infringement as the win in the first suit showed.