Wednesday, January 8, 2014

BlackBerry goes against Ryan Seacrest - FORTUNE

NEW YORK – BlackBerry has found a new adversary: ??Celebrity American television and radio host Ryan Seacrest.

Canadian company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Type a startup project backed by American Idol presenter physical keyboards that sells for $ 99 Apple iPhone. Seacrest founded the firm with the marketing executive Laurence Hallier.

Typo

keyboard has been available on request from the company debuted in December. The adapter would be released this month, but could stop BlackBerry.

a press release about the lawsuit, the attorney general of the technology company, Steve Zipperstein said Typo “is a blatant violation against the iconic BlackBerry keyboard.”

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Zipperstein not stop there.

“We are flattered by the desire to insert our keyboard other smartphones , but will not tolerate this activity without just compensation by using our intellectual property and our technological innovations,” he added.

only took a few days of 2014 and the lawsuit against Seacrest / Typo already the second news about BlackBerry and celebrities this year. The company announced Thursday that dispense with the services of Alicia Keys, who served as “creative director” for a year.

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