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Judge blocks sales of Typo keyboard on BlackBerry request |
March 29, 2014
A California judge has granted BlackBerry’s wish to temporarily halt sales of an iPhone keyboard produced by start-up Typo Products while the two companies argue over alleged copyright infringement.BlackBerry had petitioned the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in late January to block sales of the Typo keyboard because it was an “obvious knock-off” of the keyboards on its phones.In a ruling issued late Friday, Judge William Orrick said “BlackBerry has established a likelihood of proving that Typo infringes the patents at issue and Typo has not presented a substantial question of the validity of those patents.”The court’s decision will be a blow to Typo, which had asserted that its keyboards were sufficiently different.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2137680/judge-blocks-sales-of-typo-keyboard-on-blackberry-request.html#tk.rss_all
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