Most of us will definitely remember the era when BlackBerry held sway and everyone wants to own a Blackberry smartphone. All that changed with the advent of Android phones and the fluidity it brought in terms of user interface. Well, Blackberry still controls a lot of patents to date and even though the company is out contention in the industry, it holds a number of patents. Blackberry has accused Twitter of infringing on six of its patents.
Both companies are locked in a legal tussle, instituted by Blackberry which accused Twitter of infringing on some of its patents covering things like push notifications, silencing notifications for a message thread and mobile advertising techniques. In the suit, the Canadian company which referred to itself as a pioneer in mobile messaging, alleged that Twitter “created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations, using a number of the innovative user interface and functionality enhancing features that made BlackBerry’s products such a critical and commercial success in the first place.”
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This lawsuit is similar to the one Blackberry filed against Facebook last year. In the case of Facebook, BlackBerry cited seven patents that relate to security, user interface features, battery-efficient status updates, mobile messaging in games and, similarly to its issue with Twitter, silencing notifications. Facebook was later to file a countersuit where it alleged that Blackberry infringed on five of its patents. The two suits are still in litigation and so, we don’t expect a resolution to emerge from this new suit anytime soon.
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