Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Blackberry sues Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram over messaging app patents

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Canadian multinational company BlackBerry limited on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against social media large facebook, alleging that the platform and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram infringed on BlackBerry messaging app patents.

BlackBerry claimed that the agency's proprietary and patent-covered messaging product BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), become a cornerstone of contemporary cellular communications.

The agency is now contending that its intellectual assets has been infringed upon through facebook's "using a number of the modern protection, person interface, and capability enhancing capabilities that made BlackBerry's merchandise any such crucial and commercial success in the first area," in step with The Verge.

In December 2016, the former mobile giant bought the rights to layout, manufacture, and sell BlackBerry-branded telephones to chinese language multinational TCL, leaving BlackBerry limited in fee of the latter's software and cell security products.

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