Typo Products is a company that has developed a keyboard attachment for the iPhone, mainly the iPhone 5 and 5S. BlackBerry alleges that the keyboard rips off their own keyboard design.
“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, said in a statement.
The company filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Seacrest founded the company along with Laurence Hallier, a real-estate mogul. The keyboard is currently available for preorder and will retail for $99. It will likely be showcased at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show and first shipments will be sent out soon. The keyboard is meant to reduce the number of “fat-finger” typos.
BlackBerry, meanwhile, has been making headlines for several months due to its financial woes. In December, the Waterloo, Ontario-based company announced a loss of $4.4 billion in 2013’s third quarter. In September, the company announced plans to cut 4,500 company jobs, or about 40 percent of its entire workforce,
