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BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement (reuters.com)
BlackBerry has set its sights on Twitter in a new patent infringement lawsuit, accusing the social media company of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging apps that had been developed by the former smartphone maker. Reuters reports: The lawsuit said Twitter wrongly sought to compensate for being a "relative latecomer" to mobile messaging by co-opting Blackberry's inventions for such services as the main Twitter application and Twitter Ads, infringing six of the company's patents. Twitter "succeeded in diverting consumers away from BlackBerry's products and services" and toward its own by misappropriating features that made BlackBerry "a critical and commercial success in the first place," the complaint said.
The lawsuit resembles patent infringement cases that BlackBerry filed there last March and April against Facebook and Snap. Last August, U.S. District Judge George Wu allowed BlackBerry to pursue most of its infringement claims in those lawsuits, which according to court records remain pending. Wu may be assigned the case against San Francisco-based Twitter because federal courts often assign cases deemed "related" to a single judge. The Facebook and Snap lawsuits were deemed related.
The lawsuit resembles patent infringement cases that BlackBerry filed there last March and April against Facebook and Snap. Last August, U.S. District Judge George Wu allowed BlackBerry to pursue most of its infringement claims in those lawsuits, which according to court records remain pending. Wu may be assigned the case against San Francisco-based Twitter because federal courts often assign cases deemed "related" to a single judge. The Facebook and Snap lawsuits were deemed related.
Everything that goes around, comes around new again right?
When blackberry has to resort to copyright troll to survive.
Although I suppose it is different if the complainant actually made what they are suing over.
A systematic system to systemize systems systematically.
Taking input a and storing as b and reproducing as returned output C. Whether by manual input, human interface or automatic machine, creates a system that dynamically adapts to both increased and decreased levels of input and output. Stores in a variety of ways capable of being sorted by lateral patterns and numeric lists.
if they would have delivered what was promised (android updates for the priv longer then 2 years for example) than maybe they wouldnt need to do that.
Selling the "most secure" mobile phone and abandoning it after 2 years again is why they lost me as a customer permanently. i wanted a mobile phone that gets updates until its broken, not until the vendor deceides not to support it anymore. thats what all the other do ... so the promise of bb was great, but it was just a lie again.
"Twitter "succeeded in diverting consumers away from BlackBerry's products and services""
Yes, because every time when i use twitter, i keep thinking - man, this sure looks & feels a lot like my blackberry.
When i think blackberry, i think of a stupid enterprise phone of yesteryear used for exchange mail, not twitter.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
If you can't succeed in business, at least you have the courts.
Pathetic. None of that stuff should have qualified for patents in the first place. They're all 'on a phone' patents for crap that was already obvious.
The SCO story all over again.
What do you do without a good product, few actually want to buy, ..? "Of course" you degrade to a patent troll, ..! :-/ #sad
Did Darl McBride put together a group of investors and buy Blackberry recently? No? Ok, just wondering.
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Blackberries?
I will sue creimette for not giving me my share of the plums we stole together from the Santa Clara food bank!
When we met after, he already ate them all!
What made BlackBerry "a critical and commercial success" was a rock solid phone with the best physical keyboard on a device for its time (circa 2005), replacing the then-ubiquitous phone+pager duo. Implementing a good device for SMS, and even patenting it, doesn't monopolize the idea of messaging. Text pagers and early chat clients such as jabber can be seen as prior art for that.
This disgusts me. The pricks who run RIM / Blackberry today are making millions in pay for doing nothing, literally. They haven't produced a phone anyone really wanted to buy in close to 10 years. Chen is an import that has been bleeding the company of money for several of those years by driving it into the ground while he makes 3 Million / year. His contract was extended in 2018 pushing his total compensation to something north of 150 Million.
RIM execs and culture are self entitled pretentious douche bags. It's no wonder Google came to Waterloo. Between them and the immigration you wouldn't recognize KW let alone the GTA.
When you can't innovate, litigate!
The company is called Research in Motion (RIM). When they sue as a patent troll, it shall be known as a RIM job.
...That a grinning ghoul, puppeteering an ill-fitting suit made from the skin of BlackBerry, is suing Twitter.
you know just like Atari or THQ or so many more it hurts.
Just IRC on a web server?
IRC pre-dates anything RIM might make false claims for "inventing" by a long shot. I think RIM was just running down the crack of momma's ass to form a brown strain on the sheets in 1993 (RFC 1459 was published in 1993)...
If Twitter did infringe on patents, then it will get settled out of court.
Blackberry Classic user here with BB10 OS. Still going strong. Its a great phone and love the physical keyboard.
Repeat after me:
Software patents are morally and ethically wrong.
Anyone enforcing them should be ousted from the industry.
Does anyone have the actual filing?