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BlackBerry Limited v. Facebook, Inc. et al

  1. February 13, 2020

    Facebook Gets Stay In BlackBerry IP Suit For PTAB Review

    A California federal judge on Thursday granted Facebook's request to pause BlackBerry's messaging and targeted advertising patent suit amid a Patent Trial and Appeal Board review, rejecting BlackBerry's argument that its claims are sure to languish in federal court.

  2. January 08, 2020

    Facebook Targets Rest Of BlackBerry IP Suit After Alice Win

    After leveraging the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision to trim BlackBerry's IP claims, Facebook argued in California federal court Wednesday that BlackBerry's remaining messaging and targeted advertising patent claims should be thrown out, including one that purportedly relied on "jargon" to make it appear more advanced than it is.

  3. October 02, 2019

    Facebook, Twitter Get BlackBerry IP Trimmed Under Alice

    A California federal judge has declared claims from six BlackBerry patents invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision, giving a leg-up to Facebook, Twitter and Snap as they proceed in infringement litigation.

  4. September 05, 2019

    Facebook, Twitter, Snap Seek To Toss BlackBerry Patent Suits

    Facebook, Twitter and Snap urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss BlackBerry's infringement suits against the social media giants, saying BlackBerry's mobile messaging and targeted advertising patents are invalid because they don't contain inventive concepts.

  5. August 02, 2019

    Facebook Calls On Founding Fathers In Bid To Nix Tagging IP

    Facebook has urged a California federal court to invalidate a BlackBerry image-tagging patent, saying that identifying people in photos is an abstract process that has been done for ages, including to identify the Founding Fathers in an 1818 painting.

  6. August 22, 2018

    Facebook, Snap Must Face Trimmed BlackBerry Patent Suit

    A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to invalidate the bulk of mobile messaging patents at the center of BlackBerry's infringement suits against Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc., but he found that certain claims in one patent that covers the idea of time-stamping messages are invalid under the high court's Alice ruling.

  7. August 02, 2018

    Facebook, Snap Can Likely Nix Just 1 Of 7 BlackBerry Patents

    A California federal judge on Thursday tentatively denied most of Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc.'s bids to invalidate seven mobile messaging patents at the heart of BlackBerry's infringement suits against the social media giants, writing that it appears only one of the patents is invalid under Alice.

  8. June 29, 2018

    BlackBerry Slams Bids By Facebook, Snap To Ax Patents

    BlackBerry fired back Thursday at Facebook Inc.'s and Snap Inc.'s bids seeking to invalidate seven mobile messaging patents at the center of BlackBerry's infringement suits against the social media giants, arguing in California federal court filings that the patents are valid and "their inapt analogies collapse at the barest of scrutiny."

  9. March 06, 2018

    BlackBerry Hits Facebook With Mobile Tech IP Suit

    BlackBerry Ltd. sued Facebook Inc. and its subsidiaries WhatsApp Inc. and Instagram Inc. in California federal court on Tuesday, accusing the social media giant of infringing seven patents for mobile phone messaging, security, gaming and user interface enhancements, among other technologies.

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