You might recall that BlackBerry had sued the Ryan Seacrest backed Typo for patent infringement over their keyboard case for the iPhone 5 and 5S. And BlackBerry wanted sales of the keyboard case stopped. Well, we were waiting for a response from Typo and now we have it. Here is a part of it via Macleans:
In its response, Typo attached pictures of various keyboard designs that date as far back as Smith Corona typewriters.
“Strangely, BlackBerry never disclosed any of these Smith Corona products to the patent office,” Typo said in the documents.
“The QWERTY keyboard has been around since the 1870s and has been present in many messaging devices.”
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark. I wonder how BlackBerry will defend the implication that they can’t claim a patent on this?
In any case, the initial run of these keyboard cases has apparently sold out. Thus people clearly want them, much to BlackBerry’s chagrin. So we will see if there will be a second round of keyboard cases or will BlackBerry put a stop to that.
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Typo Hits Back Over BlackBerry Lawsuit
You might recall that BlackBerry had sued the Ryan Seacrest backed Typo for patent infringement over their keyboard case for the iPhone 5 and 5S. And BlackBerry wanted sales of the keyboard case stopped. Well, we were waiting for a response from Typo and now we have it. Here is a part of it via Macleans:
In its response, Typo attached pictures of various keyboard designs that date as far back as Smith Corona typewriters.
“Strangely, BlackBerry never disclosed any of these Smith Corona products to the patent office,” Typo said in the documents.
“The QWERTY keyboard has been around since the 1870s and has been present in many messaging devices.”
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark. I wonder how BlackBerry will defend the implication that they can’t claim a patent on this?
In any case, the initial run of these keyboard cases has apparently sold out. Thus people clearly want them, much to BlackBerry’s chagrin. So we will see if there will be a second round of keyboard cases or will BlackBerry put a stop to that.
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