Your iPhone will no more be able to look like a BlackBerry. BlackBerry has won a lawsuit it filed against Typo - a company that makes phone cases. Its fault- they have ben fitting the iPhone with a BlackBerry Q10 like QWERTY keyboard.
A court in California ordered Typo to immediately stop selling the $99 accessory.
The case powers the iPhone with a backlit keyboard and is connected through Bluetooth. By enabling a QWERTY keyboard the Type simply managed to convert the iPhone into a BlackBerry type of a device. There are many use a BlackBerry device simply for its keyboard.
Early this year BlackBerry had complained of patent infringement and accused Typo of blatantly copying BlackBerry’s keyboard with its iPhone keyboard case.
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“This is a blatant infringement against BlackBerry’s iconic keyboard, and we will vigorously protect our intellectual property against any company that attempts to copy our unique design,” Steve Zipperstein, BlackBerry's General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer had said at the time of registering the complaint against Typo.
AS of now you can still place an order for the case through the company’s online store in the US.
But expect it to go offline soon. The company will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a totally new design, if they want Apple fans to make their phones look like a BlackBerry device.
The company meanwhile announced that it had registered a 64 per cent drop in revenue driving share prices down. Media reports quoting chief executive John Chen said that the company had about 3.4 million devices by the end of the fourth quarter majority of which - 68 percent - continues to be BlackBerry 7 devices.
BlackBerry registered a net loss of $423 million for the fourth quarter ended March 1. Revenue fell to $976 million from $2.68 billion.
The company which cut RND expenses by 24 per cent and sales, marketing and administration costs by 35 per cent, expects the cash flow to be positive or neutral by the end of the current fiscal year which ends in March 2015.