Apple: Typo ordered to pay BlackBerry $860k for selling its knockoff iPhone keyboard case

Typo ordered to pay BlackBerry $860k for selling its knockoff iPhone keyboard case

Typo, the Ryan Seacrest-backed company selling an iPhone case with an integrated hardware keyboard, has been ordered to pay BlackBerry around $860,600 in the ongoing case between the two companies, Reuters reports. 

If you’re unfamiliar, BlackBerry didn’t particularly like the Typo keyboard’s resemblance to its own iconic, albeit obsolete, keyboard included on its dwindling smartphone lineup and covered by its patents. After the court handed down an injunction following an original suit filed in January of 2014, a US District Judge in San Francisco ruled this week that Typo will have to pay the £567,303, or approximately $860,600, fine for violating the injunction and continuing to sell the product.

Despite little interest from anyone and generally poor reviews, Typo plans to keep making its keyboard cases and noted to Reuters that the fines do not relate to its latest generation of Typo 2 products unveiled at CES last month.

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1. Howie Isaacks says: These people at Typo must be taking lessons from Samsung. Violate someone else’s patents, get fined for it, and just keep right on violating. There should be criminal penalties for crap like this. When executives start getting thrown in jail, this will stop.
   
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   • rettun1 says: As long as jails for executives will have cigars, television, and twice the space, I don’t think they care too much
     
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2. philboogie says: “…has been ordered to pay BlackBerry around $860,600 …”
   Maybe they can get away from this precarious situation by paying $86,06 … saying they thought it was a typo.
   
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3. Steven Moore (@Stniuk) says: Who would want this anyway?
   
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