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BlackBerry Sues Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Product’s iPhone Keyboard


Some of you may know that Ryan Seacrest teamed up with entrepreneur Laurence Hallier to create the Typo Keyboard for the iPhone which is available for preorder now. Take a look at the product above vs BlackBerry Q10’s keyboard, it is almost a 1-1 copy of it. Now, BlackBerry has just sued them for “blatantly copying” the BlackBerry’s keyboard.

The product in question is a keyboard that can be attached to Apple’s iPhone, offering physical keys as well as a protective case that encloses the device. The $99 accessory became available for preorder last month, with an expected launch in the coming weeks.

This isn’t the first time that BlackBerry is sueing another company over its keyboard patents. The company took aim at PDA-maker Handspring in early 2002, saying the physical keyboard resembled the functionality found in its BlackBerry phones. Handspring ended up licensing those patents, and the complaint was later dropped.

Well, in this case, it is pretty much obvious that Ryan’s design team is out of creative juices. What do you guys think? Similar to the Apple and Samsung design copy case?

To make matters more interesting: Typo Keyboard says that they plan to fight the case in court. “Although we respect Blackberry and its intellectual property, we believe that Blackberry’s claims against Typo lack merit and we intend to defend the case vigorously,” the company said in a statement to The Verge. “We are excited about our innovative keyboard design, which is the culmination of years of development and research.” The company added that it would still be shipping pre-orders later this month.

I do remember them starting work pretty recently as well, definitely not even worth years of work.

Via BlackBerry Press

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