overwhelmed smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd . accused a company backed by Ryan Seacrest , host of program “American Idol” , illegally cloning technology.
The allegations surfaced in a demand for patent violation by BlackBerry in a federal court in San Francisco. The lawsuit focuses on a keyboard for iPhone manufactured by Type Products LLC, a venture co-founded by Los Angeles Seacrest and entrepreneur Laurence Hallier.
Lawsuit alleges Keyboard Type Products for new iPhone models illegally copying technology and designs developed BlackBerry year ago for its line of smartphones. BlackBerry seeks compensation for unspecified damages and a court prevent Type Products sells the keyboard without a licensing agreement. Keyboard in dispute has not reached the market, but is accepting orders Typo Products Product , which costs $ 99, and its website says it plans to start in January dispatch. The keyboard is attached to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S models as a replacement virtual keyboard these devices. The physical keyboard of the BlackBerry phones helped change the way the people used mobile devices.But that kind of machine has lost popularity since Apple Inc. introduced its first iPhone in 2007, threatening the survival of BlackBerry. As part of their efforts to adapt, has released BlackBerry smartphone with features like virtual keyboards, but the Canadian company still battle after suffering a loss of 4,400 million in its latest quarter. BlackBerry still sells phones physical keyboard, the company now says Type Products are cloning.
“We love the willingness to engage our keyboard other smartphones, but will not tolerate this activity without fair compensation for the use of our intellectual property and technological innovations, “said Steve Zipperstein, counsel for BlackBerry.
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