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Blackberry offices in Waterloo, Canada, Sep 23 2013. The patent claims related bondable BlackBerry keyboard to Apple iPhone not meet the legal requirements for patentability, said in a court document Type Products. Photo: Mark Blinch / Reuters

BlackBerry patent claims related to keyboard bondable Apple iPhone not meet the legal requirements for patentability, said in a court document Type Products.

Typo

BlackBerry sued last month, claiming that the physical keyboard that can be attached to some iPhone models infringe patents.

Canadian smartphone maker says the Type keyboard infringes its design and claimed that the $ 99 keyboard has tiny keys and angled very similar to many BlackBerry devices.

a request to a federal court in San Francisco, Typo asked a U.S. judge to rule that the patents have not been infringed and declares some of the claims as valid and unenforceable.

Typo

said a patent is unenforceable because the design was widely available in 1988, before the patent approval, and this was not disclosed to the Patent Office of the United States.

Typo

urged the judge to dismiss all claims in the complaint with prejudice Blackberry without the possibility of further action, showed the.

Typo, founded by the co-skipper of “American Idol” Ryan Seacrest, also asked the court for a permanent injunction to prevent BlackBerry sue or threaten to sue the company for patent violation.

BlackBerry, once dominant in the smartphone manufacturing, lost its market share to iPhone and other touchscreen devices.

Typo Products

named for typographical mistakes users typing on smartphones, according to their website.

BlackBerry

declared million in losses in recent quarters due to low sales of their latest devices, but has remained faithful to the sector customers who prefer typing on a physical keyboard on the mobile phone.

(Reporting by Varun Aggarwal and Chris Peters in Bangalore; Francisco Pazos In Madrid)

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