“BlackBerry has again sued the makers of the Typo2 Keyboard, saying the second-gen iPhone accessory still rips off the classic BlackBerry design,” Stephanie Mlot reports for PC Magazine.
“A new complaint filed Monday in California suggests that Ryan Seacrest’s Typo2 ‘slavishly copied’ BlackBerry’s design, ‘down to the smallest detail,'” Mlot reports. “‘The Typo2 Keyboard still blatantly copies BlackBerry’s iconic keyboard trade dress designs that have been embodied in numerous BlackBerry smartphones from the 2007 BlackBerry 8800 to the current Q10 and Classic models,'” the document said.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s legal team should sue Beleaguered BlackBerry for slavishly copying “slavishly copied.”
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Typo. Worst name for a keyboard ever.
But If I ever wanted a neckbeard for my iPhone, I know where to look.
Or you could buy a Blackberry keyboard. But I hear they come with free phones crammed into them.
Why do companies always jam in features customers don’t want? 🙂
I don’t mind in the least seeing an overpaid, entitled, over-exposed media type like Seacrest getting his pants sued off by a former major phone manufacturer, now in the beleaguered leagues with nothing better to do.
They are both in the big beleagues now.
if they can keep the legal fees down, they may be able to show a profit for the first in a very very long time.
I just don’t get that some people still want a physical keyboard. Especially something that makes your phone bigger, heavier and likely consumes more battery.
You don’t get it because you don’t write long texts or send emails. Try it. You will see how much faster a physical keyboard is.
Actually I write long emails and texts all day every day. Touchscreen is fantastic. I also used blackberry way back in the day as well as Palm Treo and those skytel 2 way pagers from 15+ years ago.
And the voice to dictation works pretty well too. Just saying that physical keyboards aren’t coming back. And I can’t imagine a company that makes physical keyboards appealing to more than a rounding error of the population.
Wow, if Blackberry could secure a 50 percent payout from all profits of this aptly named add-on they might be able to cover their court filing fees.
I bet Seacrest is paying RIM to sue him so that he can get the publicity. If he really didn’t want to get sued, he could just buy RIM and fire everyone, since he’s probably worth more than them.
How useful is a keyboard cover that covers the home button, especially now that the home button is used for Touch ID?
It’s insane to build a product that, A-very few people will want and B-is guaranteed to get you sued?
EXACTLY.
Meanwhile, Blackberry continues their desperate theatrics in an effort to stop stockholders from dumping them.
How stupid can you get? He might as well just give the money to BB.
Next Up: Blackberry sues Chiclets for copyright infringement.