BlackBerry Limited v. Snap Inc.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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."

  6. June 08, 2018

    Facebook, Snap Say BlackBerry IP Suits Invalid Under Alice

    Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc. slammed BlackBerry Ltd.'s suits accusing the social media giants of infringing mobile messaging patents and other technologies, with each of the companies telling a California federal court Thursday the patents are invalid under Alice.

  7. April 04, 2018

    BlackBerry Claims Snapchat Infringes Its Messaging Patents

    BlackBerry hit Snap Inc. with a lawsuit in California federal court Tuesday accusing the social media company's Snapchat phone application of infringing six BlackBerry mobile messaging patents, including two patents that BlackBerry recently accused Facebook Inc. of infringing.

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