BlackBerry always seems to be fighting off one lawsuit or another. Usually it has to do with patents. Their new Chief Legal Officer, Steve Zipperstein, is fighting back. And winning in the process. Remember Mformation? They had the patent lawsuit that BlackBerry initially lost? It was Mr. Zipperstein who appealed it and won! That case [...]
BlackBerry being sued for allegedly infringing on flash memory patent
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
BlackBerry seems to be getting hit with a lot of legal actions these days. The latest is a patent lawsuit in which BlackBerry, Apple, Motorola, Huawei and ZTE are being pulled into a patent infringement case by Handal & Associates on behalf of e.Digital. The case is based on a patent that e.Digital holds for [...]
Shareholder lawsuit against BlackBerry dismissed
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A lawsuit filed against BlackBerry by some American shareholders has been dismissed from court by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan last Friday. The shareholder plaintiffs were claiming that the BlackBerry that various executives of the company had made deliberate and material misstatements about the demise of BlackBerry from 2010 to 2011.
WiLAN Initiates Litigation Against RIM
December 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Suit pertains to Bluetooth technologies OTTAWA, CANADA–(Marketwire – Dec. 11, 2012) – Wi-LAN Inc. (“WiLAN”) (TSX:WIN) (NASDAQ:WILN) today announced it has initiated litigation claiming patent infringement in the Southern District of Florida against Research In Motion Limited (“RIM”). The suit against RIM claims infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,260,168 related to Bluetooth technologies. WiLAN will [...]
RIM Sued Again for “Patent Infringement”
June 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mobile Telecommunication Company LLC has sued RIM stating that they have infringed on 5 of the patents that are in their portfolio from the acquisition of SkyTel Communications. The lawsuit states that RIM is using 5 different technologies that were pioneered by Skytel and they want RIM to pay an unspecified amount of damages in [...]
RIM Gets Slapped With Another Patent Lawsuit – This Time it is Over Music Playlists
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Well here we are the second week into the month of May and RIM has been hit with yet another patent lawsuit over music playlists. GigaOm was informed that a shell company, Point Ventures of Seattle has sued RIM for infringing on US Patent 7667123.
Patent Tolls are at it again… Apple and RIM Hit With Yet Another Patent Suit
April 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It looks like the patent trolls are hard at work again to day… The lawsuit that was filled this week by a shell company located in Texas, Touchscreen Gestures alleges that Apple and RIM are infringing on a total of four patents.
RIM Gets Sued By A Company Called Graphic Properties
March 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here we go again. Another day, another sue? RIM is being sued by “patent troll” Graphic Properties. Joining them is Apple, Samsung, LG and HTC. So what are they suing for?: A single patent which “a computer graphics process that turns text and images into pixels to be displayed on screens.”
Research In Motion Gets Sued by Patent Firm Wi-LAN
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ottawa-based patent firm Wi-LAN is now suing RIM for infringing on two patents that Wi-LAN holds. Those patents are U.S. PatentNo. 5,515,369 and U.S. Patent No. 6,232,969.
RIM Issues Official statement Regarding Kodak Patent Infringement Lawsuit
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We are not sure if you remember but a while back Kodak issued a patent infringement lawsuit against RIM and Apple both. Well there has not been much talk of this suit until now. RIM has broken there silence regarding the case. Hit the break to see what they had to say…
RIM Issued Lawsuit Claims Fraud Over BlackBerry PlayBook Discounts
January 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A class-action law suit filed by Frank Saltpietro, claims that Research In Motion Ltd. and Globalware Solutions Inc. accepted his $189 (with $10 online promotional code) order for a 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook on Nov. 26 and sent him an e-mail confirming the order on Nov. 29. The order was then canceled on Nov. 30, claiming [...]
AT&T Merger With T-Mobile Canceled As The FCC Approved AT&T’s Application Removal Request
November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
FCC has allow AT&T to withdraw their application to buy out T-Mobile. AT&T had applied to buy Tmo for $39Billion but instead are now going to fight a lawsuit brought against them by the Department Of Justice.
Class Action Suit launched against RIM for BlackBerry outage
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It was really only a matter of time before one of these reared their ugly head, but we now have a class action suit being launched against RIM for the latest BlackBerry outage. The Financial Post reported today that the suit was officially filed by the Consumer Law Group in the Quebec Superior Court “on behalf of individuals [...]
Press Release: BASIS Defends BBx Trademark After RIM’s Announcement
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–BASIS International Ltd. has taken swift legal action to preserve and protect their longstanding ownership of the BBx® trademarked operating system independent language, database, and toolset. Research In Motion’s (RIM) press release announcing a new BlackBerry operating system (OS) named “BBX” is causing great confusion for the worldwide BASIS community and [...]
RIM Must Pay Dolby Royalties For Infringing On Audio Patent
September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If RIM wants this to go away, they may have to pay $15million + interest for the audio patent infringement. “RIM will pay “standard terms,” San Francisco-based Dolby said in a statement today, settling patent-infringement lawsuits filed in June in the U.S. and Germany. While financial terms weren’t disclosed, Dolby told analysts on a conference [...]
RIM Slapped With Another Lawsuit
September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The land of the Patent Trolls has been busy as of late. The newest accusation comes from the company OpenWare who says that RIM as well as Apple are infringing on thier patents. OpenWare’s CEO Ken Denman had this to say: “Before filing these complaints, we approached both of these companies numerous times in an attempt [...]
Samsung Announces BBM Like ChatOn App Adds BlackBerry Support
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you haven’t been to the Blackberry bush in the past few days it seems that there maybe a new weed growing in our garden that may offer some competition to our beloved Berry. Samsung you know the company that makes devices usually in a Mango flavor or the Rebotic type? Well it seems that Samsung has announced a new chat service called, [...]
Press Release: Dolby Sues Research In Motion for Patent Infringement
June 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
RIM is now up against Dolby in a Patent Infringement case. Dolby is looking for unspecified amount of financial damages and injunctions which would force RIM to stop selling BlackBerry products in the US and Germany! “RIM infringes Dolby patents covering highly efficient digital audio compression technologies which allow manufacturers and consumers to provide and [...]
RIM Gets Sucked Into More Ridiculous Patent Madness
April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Looks like RIM has been caught in another frivolous patent lawsuit. H-W Technology claims that RIM as well as a few (25) other company are infringing on thier products offering products that: have systems and/or methods for allowing a multi-convergence device utilizing a domain specific application to complete a merchant transaction without the need to [...]
Kik Messenger Files Their Statement of Defence and Counterclaim Against RIM
February 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Just in case you were wondering about the whole RIM files suit against Kik for patent infringement thing. Kik Messenger has now filed their Statement of Defence and Counterclaim Against RIM! According to David Lam from David Lam Law Blog “Kik denies that it was developing a cross-platform instant messaging client in secret or had [...]
