BlackBerry deals another blow to Seacrest’s copycat keyboard empire

[Wireless News]

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rIFBmmM7gT90OgZb.4MHgg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/typo-keyboard-review-005.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-deals-another-blow-seacrest-copycat-keyboard-empire-230017248.html)Score another win for BlackBerry’s legal team. The Wall Street Journal reports that-U.S. District Judge William Orrick last week-upheld the preliminary injunction that he granted earlier this year that effectively barred Ryan Seacrest’s company Typo from selling its iPhone keyboard attachments in the United States because they allegedly infringed upon BlackBerry’s design patents. In his original ruling,-Orrick said that BlackBerry’s legal team had established a clear “likelihood” that Typo infringed upon BlackBerry’s patents while Typo’s legal team didn’t knock down any of the key patents in suit. In his new ruling last week, Orrick said that “BlackBerry has raised significant questions suggesting that Typo’s sales to foreign retailers after the injunction went into effect…violated the preliminary injunction.” In its-argument before



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