BlackBerry Sued Again - Lawsuit

A New York company has sued Research in Motion (Rim) over the design of the keyboard on the BlackBerry 7100, claiming it holds a patent that covers the "QWERTY" keyboard that uses predictive text technology.


Eatoni Ergonomics has filed a lawsuit against RIM in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. BlackBerry 7100 uses a predictive-text called SureType to eliminate typing errors and speed up writing e-mail. Eatoni has something similar called LetterWise and WordWise.

RIM's lawyers are no strangers to the court room of late. The company is defending itself against a separate patent suit filed by NTP, which claims that the entire BlackBerry push e-mail system infringes on NTP's patents.

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