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Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard
New submitter juniorkindergarten writes: Blackberry and Typo have reached a final settlement that effectively ends Typo selling its iPhone keyboard accessory. Blackberry took Typo to court for twice for patent infringement over the copying of Blackberry's keyboard design. Blackberry and Typo first battled it out in court, with Typo losing for copying the Blackberry Q10 keyboard design. Typo redesigned its keyboard, and again Blackberry sued them for patent infringement. The final result is that Typo cannot sell keyboards for screens less than 7.9", but can still sell keyboards for the iPad and iPad air. Exact terms were not disclosed.
The premise of this entire article screams like a spoiled bratty kid. Shut up, Seriously...
a normal kyeboard givs me enough trouble...
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C'mon editors!
They reached a settlement agreement. BB did not defeat Typo "in court."
-Daniel
I really wanted the article title to read "Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keeboard"
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So, BB has the patent on little keyboards? Who patented little buttons?
How does making a miniature versions of the QWERTY keyboard make Blackberry the inverter of the QWERTY keyboard?
The summary is full of Typos!
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
I dodn't know typos could sell keybroads! I hope theyr'e of good qualtiy.
- Sent from a Typo keybroad
Isn't this kind of like the First Officer on the Titanic winning an argument with a passenger over a deck chair.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
When their biggest revenue stream is patent infringement cases.
Yes the idea that a mini physical keyboard on a phone device could be patented is ridiculous. But you can rest easy knowing that Blackberry is in its death throws anyway. Unfortunately that means its patents will be soon up for sale and will be bought up by other greedy companies who will continue to "leverage" them.
I have a tiny keyboard I bought for my Palm IIIx about 15 years ago in early 2000, and I seem to recall that Handspring had to license a keyboard patent from RIM back in 2002. So it must be older than 2000 or it's prior art, and the patent is at most 2002.
If you buy a Blackberry, Fuck You for giving them money. That is all.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
seems like Canadian companies are just as eager any big business to stifle competition
lousy lawyers are laughing, all the way to the bank
Since they did such a great job of self-immolation.
Typo actually made an effort to defeat the patent in court, but what seems telling is that they weren't attempting to redesign their product to avoid the patents.
It doesn't seem likely that BB has enough patents to remove all keyboarded phones from the market. There have been too many released by other vendors which weren't challenged.
I wonder if Typo just figured that:
* The vast majority of smartphone owners at this point in time have adapted to the idea of touchscreen keyboards, shrinking the potential market for an add-on device
* Redesigning the device to avoid patents would be hard, especially for a small company like Typo that may not have the resources for a thorough patent/design review, not to mention paying to retool the manufacturing of this device.
Given the small market and costs, better to just give up both the legal fight and the headaches.
I'm going to patent air, and sue every mother fucker on Earth
I have bought devices in the past because they have had a physical keyboard, but I don't buy devices because their corners are rounded a certain way.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
So you can patent curves.
How long has Blackberry been suing companies that make phones and cases with keyboards? Is THIS why most of us have suffered with touchscreen keyboards for years now? Better yet, how is a two-way pager with a particular arrangement of keys patentable or relevant? Haven't we had pocketable/wearable devices with buttons intended for thumbs since before the Gameboy? https://www.google.com/patents...
I thought Apple just lost out that you can't patent the basic shape of the phone?! Yet in this case Typo can't copy the look of a keyboard?
How is one supposed to boycott BlackBerry's QNX operating system? Not buy a car?
if typo offered dvorak keyboards would that be k?
what about some other arrangement that looked less qwerty, or some chorded thing
also fuck blackberry
Are they making keyboards for the iPhone/etc? If the answer is no, then their patent should not apply in my opinion. If you're not in the market and someone else is and they use your idea.. tough shit? With of course the caveat that you can prove you were working on entering that market and using your IP. Just more proof of how asinine patent law and its analogues are.. Sorry, but if you aren't using something and someone else is able/willing to.. you should either be forced to license that patent at a lower amount or lose it, or your patent shouldn't apply -at all-.
Man on Internet points out: I don't even own a car!
Seriously, it is quite possible to avoid owning a car in many situations, buy fewer, fix up older cars, and so on.
Even your link points out it is 60% of cars sold. So - which ones don't support BB?
Man on Internet points out: I don't even own a car!
Seriously, it is quite possible to avoid owning a car in many situations, buy fewer, fix up older cars, and so on.
Even your link points out it is 60% of cars sold. So - which ones don't support BB?
Ok, you're cooler than everybody else.
But when you are at the hospital, are you going to avoid all of the medical devices that run QNX?
Would you force a loved one to do the same?