– Updated 03-28-2014 – The Verge reports that Judge William Orrick granted BlackBerry a preliminary injunction halting sales of the Typo. In the ruling, Orrick said that BlackBerry had “established a likelihood of proving that Typo infringes the patents at issue and Typo has not presented a substantial question of the validity of those patents.”
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Fox reality television series host Ryan Seacrest has invaded the tech world. According to CiteWorld, the pop diva has become involved in a patent trolling spat with ailing Canadian smartphone producer Blackberry (BBRY). The site reports that Typo Keyboards, the Los Angeles-based company, co-founded by the “American Idol” host Seacrest submitted documents the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that claim in part that BlackBerry’s patent claims are invalid.
The start-up alleges that BlackBerry won’t suffer serious harm because its products aren’t selling that well anyway and that it has focused on the enterprise market while Typo is targeting consumers.
BlackBerry seeks a monopoly on keyboards for any device. Regretfully, however, small keyboards with nearly identical layouts as the one ‘claimed’
The author says BlackBerry could not immediately be reached for comment.
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How that a pop star diva with the stature of Mr. Seacrest is involved in the wacky world of the mobile patent wars (Which I have covered many times), maybe we will get some new game shows like
What’s My Lie, or
The Patent Price is Right, or
3 Billion Dollar Pyramid Scheme
– I’m just saying.
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