The keyboard "becomes" an iPhone in BlackBerry causes trouble ... - The Trade

San Francisco (AP) . The overwhelmed smart phones BlackBerry maker accused a company backed by Ryan Seacrest, host of “American Idol”, illegally cloning technology.

The allegations surfaced in a lawsuit for patent violation by BlackBerry filed Friday in 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.

The lawsuit alleges that

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.

Typo Products

did not immediately return requests for comment.

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keyboard dispute has not reached the market, although Typo Products is accepting orders for the product, which costs $ 99 on its website, said it plans to begin to dispatch in January. The keyboard is attached to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S models like virtual keyboard replacement for those devices.

physical keyboard of the BlackBerry phones helped change the way people used mobile devices.

But that kind of machine has lost popularity since Apple. 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.

still sells BlackBerry phones with 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 innovation,” said Steve Zipperstein, counsel for BlackBerry.