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Typo Keyboard For iPhone Faces Sales Ban

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-typing-for-you dept.

time_lords_almanac (3527081) writes "BlackBerry is trying to put the kibosh on the Typo, a physical keyboard attachment for iPhone. And they've won the first round, in the form of a sales ban on the attachment. From the article: '"BlackBerry is pleased that its motion for a preliminary injunction against Typo Products LLC was granted. This ruling will help prevent further injury to BlackBerry from Typo's blatant theft of our patented keyboard technology," a spokeswoman for BlackBerry told the news agency in an email.'"

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  1. End times by nbohr1more · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the twilight of our civilization, endless patent and copyright fights over obvious things. A keyboard at the bottom rather than the side of a phone? Obviously this is a precious work of genius that must be protected at all costs. Soon someone will make a new generation of 8K HDTV's and they will patent "the use of a remote control with 8K HDTV's" When will someone see through this horseshit and revoke these stupid patents.

  2. Re:patented keyboard technology? by TWX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hadn't heard of this keyboard until this Slashdot article.

    With the angle-topped keys and the particular choice of layout, I think that I actually agree with Blackberry on this one, though I'd think this would fall into trademark territory more than patent technology. Maybe the curved ridges on the keys somehow have a patent I guess...

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  3. Re:patented keyboard technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What advancement? The typo keyboard is virtually a 1 for 1 copy of the Q10 keyboard. They didn't even bother changing the colour of the frets.

    You guys would be pretty pissed if "6oo6le" copied Google to the point of even using the playskool colour theme on the letters, but it's A-OK to rip off BlackBerry 100% because you don't like them.

    Hypocrites.

  4. Re:patented keyboard technology? by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The shape and feel of the keyboards is basically everything there is to the keyboard, and its all basically a copy. Its not even remotely similar to the apple case.

  5. Re:patented keyboard technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right, except Ryan Seacrest openly admitted that they stole the design from Blackberry. That's some nerve and Blackberry has every right to sue them.