BlackBerry sues Snapchat parent Snap, claiming patent infringement
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BlackBerry has recently made it known that it considers suing for patent infringement to be a 'profit center.' Actually, this seems to have been the case going back a few years. For example, who can forget the company's victorious defense of its physical QWERTY keyboard when it won a judgment of $860,600 back in 2015 from Typo. The latter firm sold a case for the iPhone that doubled as a physical keyboard for the device and the design, created by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, infringed on a BlackBerry patent. After Typo violated a court order not to sell the infringing case, BlackBerry successfully took Typo to court.
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In February 2017, BlackBerry sued Nokia, and last month the company went after Facebook and two of its holdings, WhatsApp and Instagram. And today, we've learned that BlackBerry has filed a patent infringement suit against Snapchat parent Snap. It makes sense really; if you believe that Instagram is using your intellectual property without obtaining a license, odds are that Snapchat is too. Well, that's our Story, and we're sticking to it.
Anyway, BlackBerry is claiming that Snap infringed on seven of its patents including:
- 8,209,634 - Previewing a new event on a small screen device
- 8,301,713 - Handheld electronic device and associated method providing time data in a messaging environment
- 7,970,849 - Handheld electronic device and associated method providing time data in a messaging environment
- 8,825,084 - System and method for determining action spot locations relative to the location of a mobile device
- 8,326,327 - System and method for determining action spot locations relative to the location of a mobile device
- 8,296,351 - System and method for pushing information to a mobile device
- 8,676,929 - System and method for pushing information to a mobile device
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