A man is silhouetted against a video screen with the Blackberry logo as he pose with a Blackberry Q10 in this file photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, September 21, 2013.
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- A U.S. district court on Wednesday sanctioned television host Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC for violating an injunction barring it from selling a $99 iPhone case found to have likely infringed on BlackBerry Ltd patents.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ordered Typo on Wednesday to pay BlackBerry $860,600 in sanctions, plus attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with Typo's violation of the injunction.
BlackBerry had filed a suit in January 2014 against Typo, co-founded by "American Idol" host Seacrest, alleging that the physical keyboard for some of Apple Inc's iPhone devices infringed on the Canadian smartphone maker's design patents.
In March, issued a preliminary injunction that barred Typo from selling the physical keyboard iPhone case.
Typo and BlackBerry could not immediately be reached for comment.
The BlackBerry complaint is case no. 14-cv-00023-WHO in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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