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In May, BlackBerry said it will continue with the previously announced sale of the patents related to its mobile devices to Malikie Innovations Limited for up to $900 million.
Litigation over patent infringement is part of BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen's strategy for making money for the company, which has lost market share in the smartphone market it once dominated.
BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion or RIM for short) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets. The company transitioned to providing software and services and holds critical software application patents.
The lawsuit said Twitter wrongly sought to compensate for being a "relative latecomer" to mobile messaging by co-opting Blackberry's inventions for such services as the main Twitter application ...
News / data aggregation Canada: Undisclosed [13] 13 9 April 2010: QNX Software Systems: Unix-like OS Canada: $200 million [14] [15] [16] 14 24 August 2010: Cellmania App store software maker United States: Undisclosed [17] 15 8 September 2010: Documents To Go and other assets Office suite United States: $50 million [18] 16 2 December 2010: The ...
The Blackberry devices were commercially successful, but when Campana tried to license his patents to Research in Motion, they refused to pay a fee. In order to enforce his patents, Campana, along with his attorney, formed a patent holding company , NTP Inc. Campana assigned ownership of the patents to NTP and NTP filed a patent infringement ...
Is BlackBerry on the verge of scoring big wins with the Internet of Things?
The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009 as growth in the demand for smartphones accelerated dramatically with the advent of the modern smartphone, which combined a responsive touch screen with a modern multi-tasking operating system, a browser that provided full web access and an application store, in the form of the Apple iPhone 3G and the first Android phones.