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BlackBerry Limited v. Typo Products LLC

  1. June 01, 2015

    BlackBerry, Seacrest-Backed Typo Settle Keyboard IP Fight

    BlackBerry Ltd. said Monday it has agreed to settle a patent dispute accusing Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo Products LLC of infringing patents held for BlackBerry's iconic keyboard design despite a previous suit in which a California federal judge barred Typo from selling the keyboards and levied $860,000 in sanctions.

  2. February 04, 2015

    BlackBerry Wins $860K Sanction For Sales Of Barred Keyboard

    A California federal judge on Wednesday found Typo Products LLC in contempt of a preliminary injunction enjoining the company from selling a wraparound iPhone keyboard accused of infringing BlackBerry Ltd.'s patented keyboard and imposed a hefty sanction of $860,600 plus attorneys' fees and costs.

  3. August 20, 2014

    BlackBerry Says Typo's 'Brazen' Sales Violate Court Ban

    BlackBerry Ltd. urged a California federal judge on Wednesday to sanction Typo Products LLC for violating a court order barring the company from selling a wraparound iPhone keyboard accused of infringing BlackBerry's patented keyboard, calling Typo's recent distribution of 11,000 keyboards "brazen and blatant."

  4. June 12, 2014

    Typo Says New Keyboard Case Doesn't Infringe BlackBerry IP

    Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo Products LLC on Wednesday asked a California federal judge for relief from an earlier order prohibiting the company from making and selling an iPhone keyboard case that allegedly infringed BlackBerry Ltd.'s patents, seeking instead to sell a recently developed noninfringing design.

  5. May 08, 2014

    BlackBerry Dodges Inequitable Conduct Claim In Patent Row

    A California federal judge on Thursday tossed a counterclaim and affirmative defense by Typo Products LLC in BlackBerry Ltd.'s suit accusing the Ryan Seacrest-backed company of infringing a keyboard patent, holding that the defendant didn't plead enough facts to allege inequitable conduct.

  6. April 30, 2014

    BlackBerry Patent Survives Attack By Seacrest-Backed Co.

    A California federal judge said Wednesday that he wasn't inclined to invalidate a keyboard patent BlackBerry Ltd. has accused Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo Products LLC of infringing, tentatively rejecting Typo's claim that the patent is bogus because Smith Corona patented similar keyboard setups years before BlackBerry.

  7. April 15, 2014

    Seacrest's Bond Bid In BlackBerry Row Wildly Off Mark: Judge

    A California federal judge on Friday signed off on a $500,000 bond BlackBerry Ltd. must pay in its patent lawsuit with Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC over an iPhone keyboard case, and called out Typo for making its own "wildly inappropriate" bond request.

  8. March 21, 2014

    BlackBerry Says Seacrest-Backed Keyboard Hurts Sales

    BlackBerry Ltd. urged a California federal judge on Friday to block Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo Products LLC from making and selling its allegedly copycat keyboard for iPhones, arguing that consumers who buy Typo's patent-infringing products are giving up on BlackBerry's phones, causing the company to lose sales.

  9. February 14, 2014

    BlackBerry Slams Seacrest's 'Theft' Of Keyboard Design

    BlackBerry Ltd. escalated its efforts to halt sales of iPhone snap-on keyboards sold by Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo Products LLC on Thursday, telling a California federal court the allegedly lookalike design was chosen to pick off BlackBerry users.

  10. February 06, 2014

    Ryan Seacrest's Tech Co. Blasts BlackBerry IP Suit

    Typo Products LLC, an iPhone accessories company co-owned by media personality Ryan Seacrest, told a California federal judge Wednesday that prior art invalidates patent claims asserted in an infringement suit recently filed by BlackBerry Ltd. over Typo's phone case for Apple Inc. smartphones.

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